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CHICAGO: 

A. N. MARQUIS & CO., PUBLISHERS. 



1887, 
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COPYBIGHT, 1884 AND 1886, BY 

N. MfAKQUIS & COMPANY. 



PEEFACE. 



In presenting the third annual edition of Maequis' Hand-Book 
of Chicago to the public the publishers desire to express their 
gratification at the favor with which the former editions have been 
received, and the general recognition accorded the book as a stand- 
ard work upon the subjects embraced in its pages. 

The original edition of the work was issued in October, 1884, 
and in the present edition such additions and changes have been 
made in the text as have been rendered important by lapse of time, 
and a few new illustrations have also been introduced. 

The work continues to occupy a field peculiarly its own, carry- 
ing out the original design which, as stated in the preface to former 
editions, is to give a comprehensive view of the leading features of 
the great metropolis of the Northwest, bringing out into bold relief 
the social, business, religious, charitable, educational and other 
lines of its progress, through tersely drawn sketches of the most 
striking details of each, so grouped as to convey a clear and strong 
impression of the growth and condition of that element of Chicago 
life. 

The aim has been to produce a book which would answer the 
questions of every class of inquirers, at home and abroad, and it is 
believed that the task has been at least measurably accomplished, 
and with as great a degree of accuracy as was attainable by the 
employment of every available means to that end. It has been the 
endeavor to secure the utmost economy of space consistent with 
fullness and accuracy, with such an arrangement of the mattfer as 
will afford the greatest facility for reference. Hence, so far as 
possible, subjects of a kindred nature have been collected under 
appropriate headings, and an index appended which the reader will 
find useful. 

The book will be subjected to frequent and thorough revisions, 
and suggestions for improvement and information of changes and 
corrections are solicited, and should be addressed to A. N. Marquis 
& Co., Lakeside Building, Chicago. 

January, 1887. 



CONTENTS BY CHAPTERS. 



Page. 
Preface .... 3 

Chicago — An Historical Sketch 5-28 

The Thoroughfares— Streets, Avenues, Bridges, Tun- 
nels, Street Railways 29-38 

Transportation Facilities— Railways, Eivers, Canals, 

Lake 39-60 

The Public Buildings 61-68 

The City Government 69-76 

The Militia— Military Organizations in Chicago . . 77-80 

Parks and Boulevards 81-98 

Charity and Benevolence — Charitable, Benevolent and 

Humane Institutions, etc 99-130 

The Clubs and Societies 131-158 

The Burial Places 159-172 

The Religious Institutions — Churches, etc. . . . 173-206 

Educational Institutions 207-220 

The Libraries 221-226 

Arts and Sciences — Art and Scientific Organizations . 229-234 

Places of Amusement 235-244 

The Newspaper Press . 245-256 

The Musical Societies 257-260- 

The Exchanges— and Business Associations . . . 261-266 

The Hotels 267-274 

Real Estate Interests 275-292 

Business Houses 289-348 

Index to Full Page Illustrations ...... 329 

Index to Smaller Illustrations . . . . . 329-330 

Index to Text .......... 330-336 

Financial Institutions . 283-288 



CHICAGO. 



AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 




COME two hundred and eleven 
years ago, Louis Joliet and 
Father Jacques Marquette, who 
had journeyed from Canada 
in canoes to the Mississippi 
Eiver, via the Wisconsin and 
Fox Rivers, returned to Lake 
Michigan — then known as Lac 
Des Illinois — by way of the Illi- 
nois, Desplaines and Chicago 
Rivers.* The last named rivers 
were till then unknown to the 
two explorers, who followed 

First Family Residence in Chicago. them by the advice of SOUie 

friendly Indians, as a means of shortening the return route. 

In time they came into a narrow stream which was probably then 
but little more than a slough. Paddling along its sluggish current, the 
keels of their canoes soon glided down the south branch of the Chicago 
River, through the site of the present city of Chicago, and into the clear 
waters of the lake. 

So far as is known, this trip of Joliet and Marquette — one a holy 
man, in search of savage souls to be saved and locations for the estab- 
lishment of missions, and the other an explorer in search of wealth — 
revealed to white men their first glimpse of the site of the great city. 

* Mr. Albert D. Hager, the well known librarian of the Chicago Historical Society, 
who is justly regarded as high authority, contends, in an able paper read before the 
Society, that this was not the route followed, and shows clearly that it might have 
been -but, as we weigh the evidence, not conclusively— that it was, by way of the 
Des Plaines, the " sag," Stony Brook, and the Calumet. 



6 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

Evidently what they saw made no striking or abiding impression on 
them. There was nothing around this embouchure of a little muddy 
stream which led from the prairie into the lake, to indicate its magnifi- 
cent future. If the travelers saw anything of importance, or which 
suggested the site of a populous city, they made no mention of it in 
their diary. They were weary with their long journey, and poor Mar- 
quette was oppressed with a premonition that he was close to the end 
of the journey of life. And so the first white men who ever saw the 
site of Chicago passed it without comment. Fancy the holy exaltation 
of the dying Marquette, could he have glanced forward two centuries ! 




Site of Chicago. 

One may picture with some degree of fidelity the scene these two 
men looked upon, if they cared to lift their weary eyes and glance 
about them during the few moments that preceded their entry into 
the lake. Away back on the horizon a dead level of green, with not an 
interruption to break the monotony. The water on which they pad- 
dled was sluggish, turbid, inert, covered with a slimy green, and con- 
tained within banks that scarcely rose above its dead level. Back of 
the lake for leagues the adjacent country was a level morass from which 
rose stalwart reeds and brawny grasses, and over which prevailed an 
inundation that seemed limitless as to extent and eternal as to dura- 
tion. Along the shores of the lake, to the right and left, interminable 
stretches of sand, now smooth as a floor, now blown into dunes, with 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 7 

here and there patches-of gnarled timber, squat, unhealthy, and add- 
ing a feature of desolation to the scene, instead of relieving the mo- 
notonous aspect of the waste. If the two travel- worn voyagers glanced 
at all over the surroundings, they must have felt that nature had here 
made an especial effort to construct a region to be avoided. 

This was in August, 1673, and, considering the character of the 
location, it has been none too long since to afford time in which to 
transform that area of desolation into the marvelous city which now 
fills its place. 

For more than a century the sand dunes shifted, the dwarfed vege- 
tation died and was renewed, the marshy areas of sedge were undis- 
turbed. Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis and other places 
were founded, and began their growth. There occurred the French and 
English wars in which Wolfe and Montcalm died and filled adjacent 
graves. There were British and Indian massacres, Pontiac, and other 
notables, and finally it was decided to build a fort on Lake Michigan 
for the protection of the country from Canadian and Indian incursions. 
The site at first selected was on the east side of the lake at St. Joseph, 
but for some reason the present site of Chicago * was chosen. And 
then began to exist, or to become visible, the protoplasm which in time 
would, by the processes of evolution, become the city of Chicago. 

The river gave the name to the city. The stream was called Che- 
cangou by the native Indians, and is said to have taken this designa- 
tion from a mephitic animal peculiar to the locality, and whose odor 
may have been a foretaste of what the completed city was to experience 
in after years from the rendering establishments of "Bridgeport." 
There were Indians all about in those far-off days, when the lake winds 
sighed or roared among the sodden rushes, and Chicago slept in the 
womb of the future. There were first the Miamis and Mascoutins, and 
later the Pottawatomies and others, who made forays for scalps and 
plunder on adjacent tribes, and were in turn raided by their enemies, 
when they yielded such of their scalps, ponies, and other aboriginal 
assets as they could not retain. 

For a time the region about the mouth of the Chicago Eiver was in 
the possession of France. French priests visited it, and there are 
various legends, traditions and the like, which go to establish the fact 

* Chicago is situated about the fork and mouth of the Chicago River, on the west 
shore of Lake Michigan, and near the head of that fine inland sea, in latitude 41° 52' 
north, and longitude 87° 35' west. The city comprises an area of 23,040 acres, which 
is divided into north, south and west divisions (commonly known as North Side, 
South Side and West Side) by the river and its branches. 



8 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

that there were a half dozen or more white men who were "the first" 
to visit the locality. Marquette is the one who stands most promi- 
nently in this connection and, as the original white pioneer, will prob- 
ably go down to posterity on the stream of history. This much, how- 
ever, seems to be settled : In 1795 the Indian residents ceded to the 
United States an area of six miles square, on which, in 1803, Fort 
Dearborn was erected. 

Back of this date, there is but little which does not belong to the 
age of myth, like the period of Komulus with reference to the future 
city of Home. Back of all great cities there lies a period which is dim 
and mysterious, of which much is conjectured, asserted and denied, 
but little or nothing is known. Even Chicago, the newest and most 
enterprising of modern cities, has its mythical past into which enter 
few save the disputatious, and whose character, even if fully known, 
would confer no great benefit on posterity. It was, then, in 1803 that 
Chicago entered on her historical period. For over a century prior to 
this date, the French had more or less occupied the locality ; and when 
the time came for their removal, they must have felt as did the Moors 
of Grenada when expelled by the Spaniards after some eight hundred 
years of almost undisturbed ownership. 

From 1779 to 1796, a period of seventeen years, one Baptiste Point 
DeSaible, a San Domingo negro, resided here as a trader among the 
Pottawatomie Indians. His cabin was situated on the north side of the 
main branch of the river, and near where it turns to the south. In 
1796 he sold his landed possessions to LeMai, a French trader, and re- 
turned to Peoria, whence he had come, and soon afterward died. 

July 4, 1803, marked an event in the history of the place that 
signalized the beginning of a new epoch. In those days the selection 
of a site for a frontier fort was generally made with an eye to the 
advantages of its location in respect to certain facilities and surround- 
ings that constitute prime elements in the growth and prosperity of a 
city. This was the case with Chicago. The government having found 
the situation most favorable for its purpose, Capt. John Whistler, who 
was in command of a company of regular troops stationed at Detroit, 
was ordered to proceed to this point and construct a fort. Capt. 
Whistler came in a sailing vessel, accompanied by his wife and son 
George, and his eldest son, Lieut. William Whistler, and young bride, 
leaving Lieut. Jas. S. Swerrington to bring the soldiers around by land. 
The vessel arrived at the mouth of Chicago Kiver on the day men- 
tioned, and thus, on the anniversary of American independence, in 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 9 

1803, began the story of a municipal growth that was destined to 
surpass that of any other city of the old and new worlds. Capt. 
Whistler commenced operations by the construction of Fort Dear- 
born, on the point of land extending between the lake and the south 
bank of Chicago Kiver, the enclosure including a portion of Michigan 
Avenue as it now is. The fort consisted of two block houses, from 
which there led an underground passage to the river, for. the purpose, 
probably, of securing an outlet to water in case of siege. The grounds 
occupied were quite spacious, being sufficient for a parade ground, and 
also to furnish a garden for the cultivation of vegetables. The entire 
space was enclosed by a strong palisade. Just outside of the palisade, 
on the west of the fort, was a log house used as a warehouse for the 
storage of goods intended for distribution among the Indians. The 
fort was garrisoned at this period by a force of sixty-two officers and 
privates. There were three pieces of artillery and the necessary 
amount of small arms. The site of the fort was very charming, being 
one of the highest points on the lake, and commanding an excellent 
view in every direction. There is a vague legend that this fort was not 
the first which occupied the spot, and that as far back as 1718 there 
had been a fort in the same locality. But this misty legend cannot 
be allowed to rob Fort Dearborn of the honor of having been the 
pioneer enterprise of the kind in this vicinity. 

The first permanent white settler was John Kinzie, who came to 
Chicago in the spring of 1804, and who was the progenitor of the 
numerous and respectable family of that name that was so much iden- 
tified with the early history of the Garden City. He was a silversmith 
by trade, but acted as Indian sub-agent, and Indian trader. He was a 
Canadian by birth, and died here in 1828, at the age of sixty-five 
years. He is regarded as one of the founders of the city, although it 
was many years after his death before it began to exhibit any indica- 
tions of its surpassing future. 

Mr. Kinzie became the owner of the cabin formerly occupied by the 
San Domingoan, DeSaible. He enlarged and improved it from time 
to time until he made it a comfortable home and a hospitable shelter 
to all who found its doors. The old " Kinzie House," as it is now 
familiarly called, was last occupied by Mark Noble who, with his 
family, lived in it as late as 1832. At that time, however, it was fast 
going to decay, and it shortly afterward became a thing of the past. 
It was the first family residence in Chicago. 

There is a lively discussion as to who had the honor to be the first 



10 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

white child born in Chicago. A daughter of John Kinzie, just men- 
tioned, named Ellen Marion, was born in December, 1805. Some 
children had been born in the fort, but as the military were not per- 
manent residents, and perhaps a little out of deference to the sex, the 
honor is generally conceded to Ellen Marion Kinzie. 

There was but little change in or about Fort Dearborn for several 
years. The visitors were chiefly Indians ; the inhabitants were few 
although fairly prosperous. In the summer of 1812, the entire popu- 
lation consisted of John Kinzie and family; a French laborer named 
Oulimette ; a Mr. Burns with wife and children ; and some four miles 
up the South Branch was a farmer named White, tenant of a land- 
owner, named Lee, and three French laborers in White's employ. 
Within the fort there resided Capt. Heald, Lieut. Helm and Sergt. 
Holt, and their families. In addition to these there were some sixty- 
four soldiers, of whom twelve were militia. All of the officers of the 
year 1803 had been changed, Heald taking the place of Whistler ; 
Lieut. Helm held the second place ; George Kohan was ensign and Van 
Voorhis, surgeon. 

And now there came into view on the horizon a cloud, at first "no 
bigger than a man's hand," but which speedily became a hurricane of 
most deadly force. War was declared by the United States against 
Great Britain, and the Winnebagoes and Pottawatomies became hostile 
to the whites. As early as April, 1812, the first-named tribe made a 
stealthy raid against the settlement, and managed to kill and scalp 
White, and one of the French laborers employed by him. The other 
two escaped, made their way to the fort and gave the alarm ; but from 
this time till August nothing serious occurred, beyond some small raids 
made by the Indians for the purpose of stealing cattle, or in the hope 
of securing the scalp of some unsuspicious laggard about the settlement. 

An order came from Gen. Hull, at Detroit, for the garrison of Fort 
Dearborn to move out and go to Fort Wayne, unless in a condition to 
stand a siege. Capt. Heald is represented as a man who lacked decis- 
ion of character, and hence did not comprehend the situation. It is 
now conceded that had he moved at once after getting the order, or 
even had he staid and made a determined defense, he would have es- 
caped the calamity which soon after overtook him. He concluded to 
evacuate the fort, against the advice of his subordinate officers, of Mr. 
Kinzie, and of some friendly Indians; but in place of carrying out his 
resolution at once, he determined to try and placate the Indians by 
calling them together and dividing among them the stores which re- 



12 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

mained on hand, and which he could not carry with him. The meeting 
with the Pottawatomies was held on the 12th of August, and it was 
agreed that the stores should be divided among them, and that they 
should furnish an escort for the garrison to Fort Wayne, for which they 
were to receive a liberal reward. 

The agreement to give the Indians arms, ammunition and whisky was 
so clearly disadvantageous and dangerous to the whites, and Mr. Kinzie 
protested so strongly against its being carried into effect, that Capt. 
Heald took advantage of the darkness of the night to break open the 
barrels of whisky and let the contents run into the river, and at the 
same time to throw the surplus ammunition and muskets into a well. 
This operation was witnessed by some prowling savages, who reported 
it to the others and thus aroused a deadly animosity against the whites. 
On the 15th, the evacuation of the fort was begun. On the day pre- 
vious Capt. William Wells, with some fifteen Miamis, reached the fort 
from Fort Wayne, but it was concluded that it was useless to attempt to 
defend the place, even with this addition, as the Indians were too nu- 
merous and the means of opposition too limited. Mr. Kinzie had been 
warned that the Pottawatomies meant mischief, and that he must not 
accompany the troops overland, but must put his family on a boat 
and proceed across the lake where he could join the troops on the other 
side — provided the troops were allowed to proceed on their march. 

Mr. Kinzie acted on this advice, and placed his wife and four 
younger children in the boat, in which there were also the nurse of the 
children, a clerk of Mr. Kinzie, two servants, the boatmen, and two In- 
dians who were acting as their protectors. Mr. Kinzie was urged to 
join the party in the boat, but declined to do so, as he foresaw the 
storm, and thought he might be of service in warding off some of its 
effects. The boat started, but had scarcely gotten under way when a 
messenger from the friendly Indians arrived and told them to remain 
where they were. They had reached the mouth of the river, and from 
this point saw much of the conflict which almost immediately followed. 
Mr. Kinzie and his oldest son accompanied the troops in their march 
from the fort, the former knowing that he would not be attacked, as 
the savages were friendly to him, and he hoped to be of some service to 
the others. The troops filed slowly out of the fort, the band ominously 
playing the Dead March. Capt. Wells led the way with his Miamis, and 
knowing that death was almost certain, he had blacked his face in ac- 
cordance with the custom of the Indians among whom he had been 
reared. 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 13 

The little column proceeded south along the shore of the lake, keep- 
ing on the sand. On the prairie higher up moved the escort of In- 
dians, numbering some five hundred warriors. All went well until the 
column had reached a point on the shore of the lake near what is now 
the foot of Eighteenth Street. Just then Capt. Wells, who had been 
riding a little in advance with his Miamis, came furiously back, and 
announced that the Indians were about to attack them. A moment later 
the Indians commenced firing on the column from the sand hills along 
the edge of the prairie, and at once the troops formed in line and 
charged up the bank. At the first discharge, the Miamis fled without 
firing a shot. Capt. Wells alone disdained to fly, and was speedily 
shot, scalped, and his heart taken out with the savage idea that his 
captors might acquire some of his courage by devouring it. Mrs. 
Helm, the wife of Lieut. Helm, was one of the party marching from 
the fort, and her account of the massacre has become historical. The 
troops fought gallantly, forced their, way through the Indians, and 
reached a little elevation on the prairie, where, finding the fighting 
useless, they sent an interpreter and negotir ied a surrender on condi- 
tion that their lives should be spared, and that they should be allowed 
to ransom themselves as soon as practicable. 

The loss of the Indians is stated at about fifteen. The loss of the 
whites was large, about fifty in all. Of all that left the fort, there re- 
mained at the surrender twenty-five non-commissioned officers and 
privates, and eleven women and, children. All the wounded prisoners 
were killed and mutilated. Among those killed were Surgeon Van 
Voorhis, Ensign Eohan and Capt. Wells. The wounded were Capt. 
Heald and his wife, and Lieut, and Mrs. Helm. The latter, however, 
managed to retain her senses and preserve for posterity the only reli- 
able and connected account of the fight. She was a most gallant 
Avoman, the step-daughter of Mr. Kinzie, to whom she was indebted for 
examples of courage and gallantry that did her essential service. She 
was attacked by a young Indian who attempted to tomahawk her, but 
she avoided the blow aimed at her head, and received it on her 
shoulder. She was just then seized by a friendly Indian in disguise, 
who bore her to the lake, and, in pretending to attempt to drown her, 
he saved her life. Mrs. Heald was badly wounded by bullets, and was 
on the point of being scalped, when she was rescued by a friendly In- 
dian on guard at the boat of the Kinzie party, her captor foregoing the 
pleasure of scalping her on condition of the immediate payment of a 
mule, and ten bottles of whisky at a later date. The latter portion of 



14 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

the reward seems to have proved irresistible; the savage released her 
and she was taken into the boat. Kohan, the ensign, fought to the 
last and died courageously. Surgeon Van Voorhis was wounded, and 
pitifully appealed to Mrs. Helm, who was near him, to do something 
to save him . He died very unwillingly. 

Mr. Kinzie and his family were cared for by the friendly Indians 
who saved their lives, but Mr. K. underwent a long and shifting im- 
prisonment at the hands of the British, and was at last released uncon- 
ditionally. After his death in Chicago, January, 1828, he was first 
interred on the shore of the lake near his residence. Later he was 
reinterred in the burying ground near where the North Side water- 
works now stand, and again in the cemetery formerly located in the 
southern portion of what is now Lincoln Park. A few years ago his 
post-mortem wanderings were terminated by his remains being trans- 
ferred to Graceland Cemetery. 

The Indians burned Fort Dearborn, and Chicago had undergone its 
first great trial. 

The same year the first territorial legislature of Illinois met, and it 
is said of them, in ''Western Annals," that "they did their work like 
men devoted to business matters. Not a lawyer nor an attorney is found 
on the list." Six years later the territory was organized into a state. 
In 1829 the state, by authority of Congress, inaugurated operations for 
the building of the Illinois & Michigan Canal, and soon after this the 
real evolution of Chicago commenced. In 1831 the county of 
Cook was organized, Chicago being made the county seat, and on Aug. 
10, 1833, the town of Chicago came into being. The vote by which 
the people decided to incorporate themselves was thirteen — twelve 
for, and one against. There were twenty-eight votes cast at the elec- 
tion for town officers five days later. The first public building con- 
structed after the town was established was a log jail, and the next was 
an estray pen. T. J. V. Owen, George W. Dole, Madore B. Beaubien, John 
Miller and E. S. Kimberly were the first trustees. They proceeded to 
lay out the town of Chicago in modest dimensions, as follows : Begin- 
ning at the intersection of Jackson and Jefferson Streets, thence north 
to Cook Street, and through that street to its eastern extension in Wa- 
bansia, thence on a direct line toward Ohio Street to Kinzie's Addition, 
thence eastwardly to the lake shore, thence south with the line of the 
beach to the northern United States pier, thence northwardly along 
said pier to its termination, thence to the channel of the Chicago River, 
thence along said channel until it intersects the eastern boundary line 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 



15 



of the town of Chicago as laid out by the canal commissioners, thence 
southwardly with said line till it meets Jackson Stre t, thence west- 
wardly along the line of Jackson Street until it reaches the point of 
beginning. 

In 1832 the total collection of taxes amounted to $357.78, the 
most of which came from licenses to keep tavern and sell goods. At 
that period there were no mail routes or post roads in this section, and 
of course no postofftce in Chicago. The only method of getting mail 
was to send a half-breed Indian once in two weeks to Niles, in Michi- 
gan, and he was always instructed to get possession of all the news- 
papers available, and bring them back to Chicago. The trip was made 
on foot, and usually occu- 
pied a week. The promi- 
nent families here at this 
time were those of James 
Kinzie (son of the famous 
John Kinzie), who lived at 
Wolf's Point at the junction 
of the North and South 
Branches of the river; Elijah 
Wentworth, who kept a tav- 
ern ; William See, Alexander 
Eobinson, Kobert A. Kinzie, 
Samuel See, who lived on 
the north side of the North 
Branch, nearly opposite 
Wolf's Point, and who, in 
company with his brother, 
John Miller, kept a tavern ; 
and Mark Beaubien, also a 

tavern keeper, who lived on the east side of the South Branch just 
above its junction with the North Branch. There was also an Indian 
trader named Bourasso, and a family named Boliveu, who lived just 
south of the fort. There were two or three other families, but the 
preparation of a directory of Chicago, as it then was, would be a 
work of but few minutes. 

There w T as something of an Indian scare when Black Hawk broke 
loose from the south in 1832, and at one time there were several hun- 
dred fugitives in the fort, who fled there for protection against ex- 
pected raids. It was in this war that Abraham Lincoln gained his 




Site of Old Fort Dearborn, 
River Street and Michigan Avenue. 



16 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

renown as a soldier, and many other heroes appeared who afterward 
reaped a generous reward from their grateful country. In the same 
year George W. Dole inaugurated the slaughtering and packing indus- 
try, by killing and packing 200 head of cattle and 350 head of hogs. 
This was but an humble beginning of wmat has grown to be one of the 
greatest industries of modern Chicago. 

Meanwhile Fort Dearborn had been rebuilt, and a garrison occupied 
it until June, 1833, at which time there were about a dozen families 
settled about the fort. The site of the old fort is now occupied by a 
massive five-story business block, within the angle formed by the 
junction of River Street and Michigan Avenue. This building, which 
is shown in an accompanying illustration, bears on its north front a 
marble tablet with the following inscription : 



THIS BUILDING OCCUPIES THE SITE OF OLD FORT DEARBORN, WHICH 
EXTENDED A LITTLE ACROSS MICHIGAN AVENUE AND SOME- 
WHAT INTO THE RIVER AS IT NOW IS. 

THE FORT WAS BUILT IN 1803-4, FORMING OUR OUTMOST DEFENSE. 

BY ORDER OF GEN. HULL IT WAS EVACUATED AUG. 15, 1812, AFTER 
ITS STORES AND PROVISIONS HAD BEEN DISTRIB- 
UTED AMONG THE INDIANS. 

Very soon after, the Indians attacked and massacred about fifty 
of the troops and a number of citizens, including women and children, 
and next day burned the fort. In 1816 it was rebuilt, but after the 
Black Hawk war it went into gradual disuse, and in May, 1837, was 
abandoned by the army, but was occupied by various government offi- 
cers till 1857, when it was torn down, excepting a single building, 
which stood upon the site till the great fire of Oct. 9, 1871. 

At the suggestion of the Chicago Historical Society this tablet was 
erected, November, 1880, by W. M. HOYT. 



Mark Beaubien, the original tavern-keeper of Chicago, but a 
short time since yielded up a life of far more than average length. 
He came to Chicago from Michigan in 1826, and bought from John 
Kinzie a small log house which stood about where the corner of Lake 
and Market Streets is now located, paying $100 for it. This cabin 
was transformed into the famous ' ' Sauganash " tavern, and was the 
humble pioneer of the Grand Pacific, Palmer, Tremont, Sherman, and 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 17 

other palatial hotels of Chicago. In later years, in response to an 
inquiry as to his manner of keeping tavern in the olden time, Mr. 
Beanbien said : "I had no ped, but when traveler came for lodging. I 
give him planket to cover himself up on the floor, and tell him to look 
out, for Ingin steal it. Den when he gits to sleep I take de planket 
way careful and give it to noder man and tell him same, so I always 
have peds for all dat want em." He was the father of twenty-six chil- 
dren, of whom sixteen were by his first, and the rest by his second 
wife. 

On the 26th of November, 1833, there occurred an event which 
was of more importance to the destinies of the coming city than all 
that had before taken place. This was the establishment of a news- 







Chicago in 1845. 

paper, the first enterprise of the kind, and known as The Chicago 
Democrat. John Calhoun was the daring person who took this initial 
step, and he is to the journalists of Chicago what Columbus is to 
modern explorers. The place of publication was at the corner of 
LaSalle and South Water Streets. The first number urged strongly the 
beginning and completion of the Illinois & Michigan Canal, in order 
to facilitate intercourse between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi 
Kiver, and added that, "with even the present limited system of navi- 
gation, goods have been transported from New York to St. Louis in 
the short space of twenty-three days." The issue of April 16, 1834, 
commenced a marine record, announcing the arrival of one schooner 
from St. Joseph, and the departure of two others. 

Wolf and bear hunting with in the corporate limits of the town was 
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one of the amusements that were sometimes resorted to both for pas- 
time and for the protection of the pigs, sheep, fowls, etc. In October, 
1835, a bear was treed in the woods near what is now the corner of 
Market and Jackson Streets, and many wolves were killed the succeed- 
ing winter in the same locality. During the summer season of 1834, 
Chicago was visited once a week by a steamboat from Lake Erie, and 
the same year the schooner Illinois entered Chicago Elver, being the 
first vessel that performed this feat. Before, owing to a bar at the 
mouth of the river, vessels had to unload outside and handle their 
cargoes with lighters, but a freshet came, and opened a channel for 
the admission of this vessel. Considering the "bridge nuisance" of 




Old Saloon Building. 



to-day, there are many who will regret that a vessel was ever found to 
make the initial passage. 

Chicago now had several taverns, a newspaper, a packing establish- 
ment, a ferry or two, and a marine list. In religious progress it was 
not behind. The Jesuits had preached to the Indians in the seven- 
teenth century ; and in 1833 no less than four of the principal denomi- 
nations were represented, viz : Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian and 
Baptist. 

The year 1836 was a notable one in the history of Chicago. On 
the 18th of May of that year the first ship built here was launched 
amidst the rejoicing of the entire population of the village. July 4th 
of that year was not only the national anniversary, but was the day on 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 19 

which the first soil was turned in the work of excavating the Illinois 
& Michigan Canal. Such a thing as a railway coDnection with Chi- 
cago was not dreamed of at that time, and the future of the city was 
supposed to depend on the water connection between the lake and the 
Mississippi Kiver. This year was also the one in which Chicago put 
off her rural garments, and modestly but hopefully arrayed herself in 
the garb of a young city. The actual and legal incorporation of the 
city was not effected until a year later — March 4, 1837, — but in 1836 
the necessary steps were taken by the people, and at that date, de 
facto if not de jure, the city of Chicago became a fixed fact. At the 
first city election William B. Ogden, the Democratic candidate, was 
elected mayor, his opponent, John H. Kinzie, being the Whig repre- 
sentative. The entire vote was 706, of which Mr. Ogden received 469, 
and Mr. Kinzie 237. 

The map of that year gives the boundaries of Chicago as follows : 
On the south by Twenty-second Street, on the west by Wood Street, on 
the north by North Avenue and on the east by the lake. This bound- 
ary included the grounds of the fort and some land along the lake 
shore extending a half mile north of North Avenue, which were 
reserved. 

The first meetings of the municipal authorities were held in what 
was called the Saloon Building, on the southeast corner of Lake and 
Clark Streets. Five years later the meetings were held in a private 
building on the corner of LaSalle and Randolph Streets. The first 
city hall was constructed in Market Building, a structure erected by 
the city, and which stood in the center of State Street, with its south 
front on a line with Randolph, and extending north toward Lake. The 
lower floor was a market, and the upper floor was arranged for the uses 
of the municipality. In 1851 a joint court-house was built by the 
county and city on Court- House Square, the site of the present city and 
county buildings, and was used until it was destroyed by the great fire 
of 1871. 

Chicago grew rapidly after its incorporation as a city, and it was 
believed by those who had land to sell that in the future it would reach 
a population of not less than one hundred thousand souls. The year 
of its incorporation, however, it encountered its first serious obstacle 
in the financial panic of that and the following year. The demand for 
real estate fell off very heavily, as may be gathered from the sales of 
the canal company, which in 1835 were over three hundred and sev- 
enty thousand acres ; the next year over two hundred and two thou- 



20 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

sand, and in 1837 less than sixteen thousand acres. There was an 
improvement the succeeding year, when the sales mounted up to one 
hundred and sixty thousand. Many people left the city during the two 
years referred to, under the conviction that Chicago's day of prosperity 
was passed, and that it was doomed to extinction as a city. 

Statistics show that from 1832 to 1853 real estate increased in 
value at a rate which is almost beyond belief. Lots 3 and 4 in block 
31, for instance, were worth $102 in 1832, and sold for $108,000 
in 1853. Several lots held by Beaubien and the Kinzies at $346 in 
1832, were sold in 1853 at $540,000. The rise in general, during 
this period, was scarcely less on an average than that exhibited in the 
instances cited. 

The next serious set-back Chicago had after the panic of 1837-38 
was the flood of 1849, the consequences of which were serious. The 
inundation occurred in March and was produced by the overflow of the 
Desplaines Biver. The Soath Branch of the Chicago Kiver was filled 
with ice, which was soon undermined by the flood from the Desplai aes. 
There were many vessels in the river, and these were crushed in the 
advancing gorge of ice. The pushing mass included everything in its 
march, and this added to its deadly character. Some forty vessels were 
utterly destroyed, and the only bridge in the city was annihilated. 
The damage to the shipping, wharves and city generally was estimated 
at considerably over a hundred thousand dollars. 

In 1850 Chicago had forty-two miles of railway on the Galena line, 
which was commenced in 1847. Two years later it was connected 
with the east by the Michigan Southern Kailway, and from that time 
to the present its progress as a railway center has been without a par- 
allel in modern civilization. 

An event of considerable importance took place in 1855, when Dr. 
Levi D. Boone was mayor, having been elected on the Know Nothing 
ticket. One of his first official acts was to recommend to the common 
council that the license for saloons be raised from $50 per annum to 
$300, and that no license be issued for more than three months. This 
excited great opposition among the liquor sellers and their friends, 
who banded together to resist the movement. The attempt to colle3l; 
the new license, and to enforce the Sunday law which had long been a 
dead letter, led to great excitement, and during the pendency of a trial 
of one of the offenders, a great crowd gathered on the corner of Ban- 
dolph and Clark Streets, filling both thoroughfares and totally ob- 
structing travel. In the afternoon the police and the mob came into 



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violent contact. There was a good deal of shooting on both sides, and 
although the official reports show but one man killed on the side of 
the rioters, it is believed that several were killed and carried off by 
their friends, or else died later from wounds received in the melee. 
A couple of pieces of artillery were brought out and placed in position 
for service, but the police handled the mob, and dispersed it without 
great difficulty. 

The greatest event in the history of Chicago was the Great Fire, as 
it is termed, which broke out on the evening of Oct. 8, 1871. Chicago 
was at that time a city of wood. For a long time prior to the evening 
referred to there had been blowing a hot wind from the southwest, 
which had dried everything to the inflammability of tinder, and it was 
upon a mass of sun and wind dried wooden structures that the fire 

began its work. It is sup- 
posed to have originated 
from the accidental upset- 
ting of a kerosene lamp in 
a cow-barn on DeKoven 
Street, near the corner of 
Jefferson, on the west side 
of the river. This region 
was composed largely of 
shanties, and the fire spread 
very rapidly, soon crossing 
the river to the South Side, 
and fastening on that portion 
of the city which contained nearly all the leading business houses, and 
which was built up very largely with stone and brick. But it seemed 
to enkindle as if it were tinder. Some buildings were blown-up with 
gunpowder, which, in connection with the strong southwest gale, pre- 
vented the extension of the flames to the south. The fire swept on 
Monday steadily to the north, including everything from the lake to the 
South Branch, and then crossed to the North Side, and, taking in 
everything from the lake to the North Branch, it burned northward 
for a distance of three miles, where it died out at the city limits, when 
there was nothing more to burn. In the midst of this broad area of 
devastation, on the north side of Washington Square, between Clark 
Street and Dearborn Avenue, the well-known Ogden House stands 
amid trees of the ancient forest and surrounded by extensive grounds, 
the solitary relic of that section of the city before the fiery flood. 




First House Erected -in the Burnt District. 



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The total area of the land burned over was twenty-one hundred 
acres. Nearly twenty thousand buildings were consumed ; one hun- 
dred thousand people were rendered homeless ; two hundred lives were 
lost, and the grand total of values destroyed is estimated at two hun- 
dred millions of dollars. Of this vast sum nearly one-half was covered 
by insurance, but under the tremendous losses many of the insurance 
companies were forced to the wall, and went into liquidation, and the 
victims of the conflagration recovered only about forty-four millions, 
or less than one-half of their insurance, and only about one-fifth of 
their aggregate loss. Among the buildings which were burned were 
the court-house, custom-house and post office, chamber of commerce, 
three railway depots, nine daily newspaper offices, thirty-two hotels, 
ten theaters and halls, eight public schools and some branch school 
buildings, forty- one churches, five elevators, and all the national 
banks. 

If the Great Fire was an event without parallel in its dimensions and 
the magnitude of its dire results, the charity which followed it was 
equally unrivaled in its extent. Scarcely were the flames under way, 
and the extent of the destruction foreseen, when efforts for relief 
seemed to begin spontaneously wherever the telegraph carried the 
news. All the civilized world appeared to instantly appreciate the 
calamity. Food, clothing, supplies of every kind, money, messages of 
affection, sympathy, etc., began pouring in at once in a stream that 
appeared endless and bottomless. In all, the amount contributed 
reached over seven millions of dollars ! Nothing so God -like in its 
grandeur as a practical illustration of human sympathy with misfort- 
une was ever before or since known in the history of mankind. 

It was believed by many that the fire had forever blotted out Chi- 
cago from the list of great American cities, but the spirit of her people 
was undaunted by calamity, and, encouraged by the generous sympathy 
and help from all quarters, they set to work at once to repair their al- 
most ruined fortunes, merchants and manufacturers resuming business 
in private dwellings, or in temporary shanties put up on the sites of their 
burned houses, as soon as the debris could'be cleared away. Rebuild- 
ing was at once commenced, and, within a year after the fire, more 
than $40,000,000 were expended in improvements. The city came 
up from its ruins far more palatial, splendid, strong and imperishable 
than before. In one sense the fire was a benefit. Its consequence was 
a class of structures far better, in every essential respect, than before 
the conflagration. Fire -proof buildings became the rule, the limits of 



24 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

wood were carefully restricted, and the value of the reconstructed por- 
tion immeasurably exceeded that of the city which had been destroyed. 
The commerce of the city increased by millions of dollars immediately 
after the fire, and, in fact, a magnificent new city grew up on the ruins 
of the old, and was, in all respects, incomparably the superior of the 
one that had been devoured by the flames. 

In 1857 the grades of the city were at least eight feet below their 
present level. At that time the city was for many months of the year 
simply a huge mud hole. It was suggested by some engineering genius 
that the grades be raised. This met with most violent opposition, 
but the intent was persevered in, and finally carried into practice. It 
was contended that it would be impossible to procure the materials for 
filling, but the end justified the effort, and the streets now up to grade 
are dry and easily drained ; a system of practical sewerage has taken 
the place of the drainage ditches and gutters of early Chicago, and in 
that respect the city stands next to London and Paris. By the process 
of elevating the grades many buildings were left with their first stories 
almost hidden by the raised sidewalks and curbing. In some cases the 
stories thus affected were transformed into basements, and additional 
stories added above. In other instances the buildings were torn down, 
but where they were sufficiently valuable to justify the labor and ex- 
pense, they were raised to the height required, and new foundations 
built. Entire brick blocks have been thus raised, and even moved 
laterally, without suffering the least injury. 

Since the fire building operations have been officially supervised, 
and a high degree of excellence and safety has been reached. The 
area within which the erection of wooden buildings is forbidden 
reaches well away in every direction from the business centers, and 
thus renders impossible any such devastating fire as that of 1871. 
Not only is the use of wood for walls no longer tolerated, but there 
has grown up a rivalry among citizens for the construction of fire- 
proof buildings. Stone and brick are universally employed in walls, 
but wood, in a great many instances, scarcely enters at all into the 
composition of the best structures. 

The panic of 1873 affected Chicago very seriously, although the 
ultimate result was that but little injury was done to legitimate inter- 
ests. The failures were mainly among real estate speculators. At the 
beginning of the panic real estate, especially of the unimproved kind, 
was so high as to be substantially " out of sight." Prices of improved 
real estate are to-day well up, but in many instances they have not yet 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 25 

reached the altitude which they attained in 1873, nearly a dozen years 
ago. Some of the results of the panic were beneficial. Improvement 
was substituted for wild speculation, and residences and business 
blocks were built on lands that before were unoccupied and held for a 
rise in prices. 

July 14, 1874, another fire broke out in the heart of the city, and 
swept over eighteen blocks, consuming 600 houses, and leaving black- 
ness and ruin in its path. Fortunately the area ravaged by the destruct- 
ive element was occupied mainly by wooden structures, and the loss 
was light compared with that of the previous conflagration, aggregating 
only about $4,000,000. The splendid palaces of trade that had been 
reared on the ruins of 1871 were nearly all spared in this second 
visitation. 

Despite the flat surface on which it stands, Chicago is one of the 
healthiest of the large cities of the country. Its highest death rate of 
late years was 20.29 per 1,000 of the population in 1875, and its 
lowest 15.70 in 1878. Compared with the mortality of many other 
cities, this is remarkable. In New York the rate per thousand per 
annum averages very closely on 30 ; in Boston from 21 to 25 ; in 
Philadelphia from 20 to 26 ; and in many of the great European cities 
from 25 to 45 per thousand. The winds from the southwest and those 
from the lake sweep alternately over the city, and constantly purify 
the atmosphere. The purity of the water, which is brought from a 
point two miles out in the lake, is also a potent factor in the reduction 
of the rate of mortality, and the sewerage system, which is much 
better than that in average use, is not without its effect in the same 
direction. The cholera made a visit to Chicago in 1866, but unlike its 
predecessor in 1852, it found its ravages checked by preventive sani- 
tation. At present the sanitary condition of the city is such that epi- 
demics of any kind are not regarded as among the probabilities. 

The great labor riots of 1877, which originated in Pittsburg, ex- 
tended to all important cities in the country, the agitation here lasting 
three or four days. The militia were called out, but their services 
were not required, except as guards of certain private property and 
public buildings that were threatened, the local police being equal to 
all the demands of the occasion. The number of killed and wounded 
was less than a score. Considering its extent and the heterogeneous 
character of its population, Chicago is one of the most orderly of 
modern cities. 

On account of its lake breezes, enormous railway facilities and nu- 



26 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

merous and unequaled hotels, Chicago has long been a favorite place for 
summer conventions. For this purpose it possesses a special advan- 
tage in having, in the main hall of the exposition building, the largest 
place of assembly in the country, if not in the world. The convention 
which nominated Lincoln in 1860 met in Chicago, as did the national 
Democratic Convention of 1864, which nominated McClellan. Gar- 
field was nominated here in 1880. Blaine was nominated in the Ke- 
publican Convention held in Exposition Hall in June, 1884, and 
two weeks later Cleveland was nominated by the national Democratic 
Convention held in the same place. Many of the denominational 
conventions have made the city their place of meeting ; and in 
the case of no national assemblage, political, religious, social or 
otherwise, has there ever been found any difficulty in caring for all who 
came, irrespective of numbers, and without inconvenience to other 
transient visitors, either as to hall or private entertainment. 

The marvelous growth of Chicago in population, and the equally 
rapid expansion of the business interests of the city, have attracted 
universal attention and been the theme of admiring comment on the 
lips of all the world. Eising from seventy inhabitants in 1830 to 
3,820 in 1836, and over 4,000 in 1837, when the town was organized 
as a city, the first three years of its existence in that more dignified 
capacity do not seem to have added much to its numbers, the census of 
1840 showing only 4,853 inhabitants. From this time on the growth 
was rapid, the population increasing seven-fold in the next ten years, 
and numbering 29,963 in 1850. In 1860 it was 112,172 ; 298,977 
in 1870 ; 503,185 in 1880, and in 1884 it was estimated on a fair basis 
of calculation at 650,000, of which 50,000 represents the increase dur- 
ing the previous years. 

The material wealth of the city has kept pace with the population. 
Starting with a taxable valuation in 1837 of $236,842, which fell off 
in consequence of a panic to something over $94,000 in 1839-40, 
and made an astounding jump from $151,342 in 1842 to $1,441,314 
in 1843, again doubling itself the succeeding year, the increase has 
since been rapid and steady. The total valuation was $7,220,249 in 
1850; $37,053,512 in 1860, and $275,986,550 in 1870. In Oc- 
tober, 1871, the great fire consumed $200,000,000 of property, yet 
notwithstanding this enormous loss the taxable valuation in May, 1872, 
only a few months after the fire, was $284,197,430, and it rose in the 
next two years to $303,705,140. Then the legislature passed a law 
transferring the duty of assessing and levying taxes to the county 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 27 

authorities, their valuations being subject to revision by the State 
Board of Equalization. The result was a contest between the counties 
in the reduction of their tax lists, and the total valuation, in Chicago, 
in 1875, was cut down to only $173,704,246, or something over one- 
half that of the preceding year. Id 1880 the total taxable valuation 
was only $117,133,643, or less than one-half that of the year after the 
losses of 1871, although the actual values had been multiplied by im- 
provements. In 1883 the figures were $133,230,504. The revenues 
of the city were further restricted in 1879 by a law prohibiting the 
levy for municipal purposes from being raised above two per cent, on 
the valuation. The tax-rate for all purposes is $3.41 on the $100, but 
as that figure is considerably less than two per cent on the actual value 
of property, one result of the present system is to give Chicago, which 
really enjoys a very light taxation compared with other cities, a most 
undesirable advertisement as a heavily tax-burdened city. 

The bonded indebtedness is $12,751,500, having undergone a 
gradual reduction from $14,103,000 in 1871, when it reached the 
highest point ever attained. 

The number of buildings erected in 1883 was 4,086, and their esti- 
mated cost was $22,162,610. The building operations the current 
year promise to be of increased magnitude and interest. 

All the great industrial, commercial and financial lines of enterprise 
exhibit a growth proportionate to the remarkable increase of the pop- 
ulation, until, as has been well said, the people themselves look with 
wonder on the magnitude of the various interests that have grown up 
under their efforts, Among the most extensive lines of business are 
the handling and manufacture of food products, in all branches of which 
there is an immense traffic. The receipts of cattle for the year 1882- 
83 were 1,878,944, and the shipments 966,758. The receipts of 
hogs for the same year were 5,697,163, and the shipments 1,363,759. 
The number of cattle packed was 697,033, and the number of hogs 
4,222,780. The total receipts of flour and grain, the former being 
represented by its equivalent in wheat, amounted to 164,924,732 
bushels. The receipts of lumber were 3,587,634,000 feet, and of 
shingles 2,288,949,000. From the above figures it will be seen that 
Chicago is the greatest market in the world for lumber and shingles, 
grain, and hogs and cattle, besides being the greatest packing center 
for the latter products. 

In manufactures the demands of the trade with tributary regions 
have caused a constant addition to the list of products and a steady 



28 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

increase of facilities, until Chicago has become one of the leading 
manufacturing cities of the country. The United States census of 
1880 makes the following exhibit of the industrial interests of the 
city: Number of establishments, 3,519; capital invested, $68,836,- 
885 ; hands employed, 62,431 men, 12,185 women, 4,798 children ; 
annual wages, $34,653,462; value of materials used, $179,209,610; 
value of products, $349,022,948. The capital invested in slaughter- 
ing and meat packing is stated at nearly eight and one -half millions of 
dollars ; in clothing, nearly six and one-half millions ; in foundry and 
machine shop products, nearly four and one-half millions ; in iron and 
steel production, nearly four millions ; in brewing, over three and one- 
fourth millions ; in agricultural implements, over three millions ; in 
printing and publishing, nearly three millions ; in furniture, nearly 
two and one -half millions ; tanning, nearly two millions ; carriages 
and wagons, over one and one-fourth millions ; soap and candles, over 
one and one- fourth millions ; sash, doors and blinds, nearly one and 
one-fourth millions ; distilling, over one million. These statistics are, 
of course, only approximate, and for obvious reasons rather under- 
state the facts ; but since the date to which they relate, the interests 
they represent have grown rapidly, facilities being largely increased in 
all branches, and operations being correspondingly expanded so that 
it would be quite within the mark to add at least 50 per cent to the 
figures as given. 



THE STREETS, AVENUES, BRIDGES, TUNNELS, SEWERS AND 
STREET RAILROADS. 

THE facilities provided by public and private enterprise for the con- 
venience of internmral transit compare favorably with those of 
other great cities. 

The Streets and Avenues of Chicago originated in a road run- 
ning from the town in a southwesterly direction, and branching after 
a short distance into two roads, one known in those days as the 
" Trail to the East," and the other as " Hubbard's Trail to Danville," 
or, farther out on the prairie, the " Road to Widow Brown's." 

The plank-road was subsequently a feature in the history of the 
city. The first built was in 1848, and was known as the Southwest- 
ern ; then came the Northwestern ; next the "Western ; after which 
were the Southern, the Blue Island, and the Lake Shore. All of these 
were not only regarded as enterprises of great magnitude at the time, 
but were of material benefit in assisting the development of the 
city. It was believed by many at the time of their construction, and 
so urged in at least one of the public prints, that plank roads were of 
far more value to the city than railways. Indeed, there were those 
who urged that railways be kept out of the city, and the conveyance 
of passengers and the transportation of produce and goods be limited 
to plank roads. One writer says that on the plank roads, passengers 
are conveyed at the rate of ten miles an hour, which is as fast as they 
are taken on the Michigan Central Railway, and with ten times the 
safety. It was urged by this class of reasoners that the railways would 
take away all the profits of transportation, while, if the work were 
done by teams, the money would come to Chicago. 

Originally the streets were simply mud roads, and during portions 
of the year were next to impassable, the worst places being planked 
when absolutely necessary. There was not much attempt at the con- 
struction of improved roadways until about 18G4, at which time the 

The raising of the grade of the streets hao been noted in the opening chap- 
ter, on page 24. 



30 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

" Nicholson " was laid down on Lake Street. From that time wooden 
pavement had a run, and in fact is yet in use on many of the principal 
streets. Within the past two or three years, in the business portion of 
the city, granite has been largely used. Macadam is used on the bou- 
levards, and on some of the streets, notably Ashland Avenue and 
Jackson Street ; the material, outside of the business portions, being 
largely wood. The wood now in use is mainly cedar blocks, which, 
with the improved method of laying them, are giving very satisfactory 
results. Asphalt has been used to some extent, but has not given 
entire satisfaction, and seems likely to be wholly abandoned. When 
completed, the paving system of Chicago, as now in use, will render it 
one of the best paved cities in the world. The entire length of the 
streets of the city is 650 miles. The length of the paved streets is 
about 200 miles. 

The names of the principal streets generally indicate their origin. 
Many of them are named for the Presidents and others who were 
prominent in the nation or state ; the names of people more or less 
conspicuously connected with the history of the city, of the surround- 
ing states, and other equally obvious sources, contributed to the no- 
menclature. The names of the Presidents and leading statesmen of 
the country will be readily recognized. Clark Street was christened in 
honor of Gen. George Kogers Clark, of Kentucky, who acquired mili- 
tary fame in the early contests with the French and Indians. Fifth 
Avenue was originally named in honor of Capt. Wells, who was one of 
the victims of the Indian massacre in 1812, and that portion of the 
street which lies in the North Division still retains the name. Ann 
Street was named after a daughter of the venerable Philo Carpenter ; 
Augusta after another daughter; and so on of many other names of 
women. In this respect Chicago has shown no lack of gallantry. 

The city is laid out in rectangular lines, with the exception of 
several streets which were constructed on the routes of the old plank 
roads, and which consequently radiate to the northwest and southwest. 
The principal business streets of the city lie on the South Side, where 
are congregated within a space of about ten blocks square nearly all 
the wholesale business of the city, and a large proportion of the retail 
trade. This area contains the palatial business houses, hotels and 
public buildings whose magnitude and architectural beauty have 
added so largely to the fame of Chicago. South Water Street, which 
lies next to and parallel with the main river, is largely devoted to the 
produce commission business. It is always almost impassable from the 




Michigan Avenue, Corner Acams Street— Pullman Building. 



32 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

number of trucks, vans and carts which throng it and the boxes of 
produce which encumber its sidewalks. Here are brought and dis- 
tributed daily the various products of the market garden, orchard, 
field and stream. 

State Street is the great shopping street of the city, and on any fair 
afternoon it can be seen thronged with pedestrians and carriages, and 
presenting a scene of gayety, wealth and beauty such as is paralleled 
only on Eegent Street, London, or some of the more notable boule- 
vards in Paris. It was originally much narrower and was widened to 
its present handsome and attractive proportions by moving the houses 
back along a stretch of three miles. Michigan Avenue, Wabash Avenue 
and State Street, near the river, are all given up to wholesale houses. 
Michigan Avenue, a few blocks from the river, loses its identity in 
Michigan Avenue Boulevard (see chapter on "Parks and Boule- 
vards"), the entire extension of which is a favorite residence street, 
as are also Prairie, Calumet, Indiana and other avenues, containing 
residences which are palaces in their cost and architectural design 
and finish. State Street is traversed by the cable line of cars as far 
south as Thirty-ninth Street. Twenty-second Street, running east and 
west, and more than two miles fvrom the City Hall, is for a dozen blocks 
nearest the lake a busy, business thoroughfare. It has a bank and 
many pretentious retail stores. Archer Avenue, branching from State 
Street, between Nineteenth and Twentieth Streets, takes a southwest- 
erly direction, crosses a branch of the Chicago Eiver,and extends be- 
yond the city limits. It has horse cars, and resembles in the character 
of its buildings, shops, people, etc., Blue Island and Milwaukee Ave- 
nues, on the West Side. Wabash Avenue is traversed by a cable line 
of cars from Madison Street south to Twenty-second Street. At 
Twenty-second Street the cable car line runs east to Cottage Grove 
Avenue, which it follows in its southeasterly direction parallel with, 
and about two squares west of the lake shore, to the junction of Drexel 
and Oakwood Boulevards, four and a half miles from the City Hall. 
Cottage Grove Avenue is devoted principally to business purposes. 

Madison Street is the great east and west thoroughfare of Chicago. 
The eastern portion, or East Madison Street, in the South Division, is 
splendidly paved, and is flanked on either side with wholesale and 
retail establishments. 

West Madison Street is the principal retail street of the West Side. 
The street extends westward from the lake, passing in its course Gar- 
field Park and the Chicago Driving Park, and is finally lost in an unim- 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 33 

proved roadway in the open prairie, at a distance of over five miles. 
It is traversed by horse cars its total improved length. Eandolph and 
Lake are the other leading parallel business streets of the West Division. 
Both have street car lines. Ogden Avenue, beginning in Union Park, 
takes a southwesterly direction, curving westwardly in its course, 
passes Douglas Park, and ends at Twenty-second Street, near the city 
limits. It long retained the appearance of a country road, being till 
recently unimproved and sparsely settled. A cedar pavement has just 
been put down, and stores and shops are rapidly appearing all along 
its line, and it is fast assuming a metropolitan air. It has horse cars, 
and in time will be a busy business thoroughfare. 

The intervening streets between the river and Halsted Street are 
largely occupied by manufactories. In this section are found nearly 
all the great machinery, steam-engine, boiler and kindred iron-work- 
ing concerns. Halsted Street is reached some live squares west of the 
Madison Street crossing of the river, and is the leading north and 
south thoroughfare of the West Side. It extends, in an almost straight 
Jine, entirely across the city. Its southern half is traversed by street 
cars direct to and from the Union Stock Yards, and is given up almost 
wholly to retail trade, by Irish, German and other foreign elements. 
The buildings after a few squares are principally wooden structures 
that escaped the great fire. They present a quaint and dingy appear- 
ance. Blue Island Avenue branches from Halsted Street, at the 
latter's junction with West Harrison Street, in a southwesterly direc- 
tion to the great lumber district. The buildings with which it is 
densely lined are generally the poorest class of wooden structures in 
the city. . The dingy-looking shops are kept by Irish and Germans of 
the lower classes, with here and there a Swede or Norwegian. 

Milwaukee Avenue is distinctly the German business thoroughfare. 
It is lined with retail shops of every description, markets, saloons, etc. 
Many of the buildings are wooden ante-fire structures, and are as de- 
cidedly foreign in appearance as are their occupants. Beginning at 
the river and Lake Street, Milwaukee Avenue extends in a northwest- 
erly direction away beyond the city limits, where it is merged in a 
country road in the open prairie. 

Washington Boulevard is the leading residence street of the West 
Side. It belongs to the great boulevard system of the city, and has 
been referred to in the chapter on "Parks and Boulevards." West 
Monroe, Adams and Jackson, parallel with and south of Madison 
Street, are also popular residence streets, save a few squares occupied 
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34 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

by business and manufacturing establishments near the river. They 
are flanked by fine dwellings, churches, and lines of shade trees, inter- 
spersed here and there with little gems of parks of the brightest 
description. Ashland Avenue, running north and south, is splendidly 
paved and contains some of the handsomest houses on the West Side. 

On the North Side, Clark Street is the leading business street, being 
occupied mainly by the smaller retail stores. It extends northward 
beyond Lincoln Park, and is- a great thoroughfare. The streets lying 
near and parallel with the river are largely used by manufacturing 
establishments, and commission houses engaged in handling hides, 
leather, wool, etc. The preferred residence streets are LaSalle and 
Dearborn Avenues, Eush, State and Pine Streets, some of the resi- 
dences being very elegant and artistic in architectural and other orna- 
mentation. Chicago Avenue, from North Clark Street west to the river ; 
Division Street, from North Clark to Clybourne Avenue ; Clybourne Ave- 
nue, which here has its beginning and extends in a northwesterly 
direction to the city limits ; and Larrabee Street, running north and 
south, are all business thoroughfares. They traverse a section of the 
city inhabited almost wholly by a foreign population— Scandinavian, 
German, etc. 

The residences on the streets referred to as residence streets are 
generally built of superior materials. Ked pressed brick is much used, 
but stone is the favorite. Of the latter there are many kinds, all vary- 
ing in color, so that there is nowhere any sameness in the character of 
the coloring. There is equal diversity in the forms of the houses, 
there being but very little block building, each house, as a rule, being 
wholly independent in material, size, form and decoration. Joliet 
limestone, which is milky white at first, and after exposure becomes a 
rich, soft cream-color, is in large demand. The deep, rich brown of a 
sandstone from Lake Superior is also much used ; there is also the 
close-grained dark gray of the Buena Vista quarries, and a dozen other 
kinds of material, including the cheerful cream -colored pressed brick 
of Milwaukee, all of which afford infinite variety of pleasing effects. 
The churches are generally constructed of rough-dressed limestone of 
a dark-grey, which is a color eminently in harmony with their purpose. 
The winds blowing alternately from the lake and from the land are 
sufficient to keep the city free from smoke, with the result that these 
richly -colored building materials are rarely obscure! by stains, and 
the streets present always the striking effects flowing from the warm, 
bright, sympathetic colors. 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 35 

The Bridges of Chicago are interesting, and many of them are 
important, features of its system of highways. Under the latter head 
must be classed the bridges over the Chicago Eiver and its branches. 
These bridges, thirty-six. in number, are built and owned by the city, 
being regarded equally with the streets as a public Avork, furnishing 
necessary convenience of transit between the divisions. It has been 
jocularly said that the first bridge was a ferry, and it must be acknowl- 
edged that a number of the early devices to facilitate passage over the 
stream were a sort of cross between a ferry boat and a bridge. The first 
structure of this kind was a log float stretched across the river after the 
manner of a pontoon bridge, from which the idea was probably derived. 
Other bridges of the kind followed, and in some of them an improve- 
ment was introduced, the bridge being hinged on a pivot at one end, 
and a rope attached to the opposite end was used by means of a capstan 
and levers, to pull the float around, out of the way of passing vessels. 
A further improvement on these clumsy efforts at a drawbridge was 
made in the bridge erected over the river at the Dearborn Street cross- 
ing in 1834. This was the first drawbridge built in Chicago. The cen- 
ter span was made in two sections, hinged at the piers and meeting like 
an arch over the middle passage. The bridge was drawn by breaking 
the arch upward with a combination of ropes and pulleys, which lifted 
the meeting ends of the sections and made a space between them 
through which vessels passed. This structure so utterly failed to meet 
popular expectations that it was unanimously voted a nuisance, and 
when its removal was ordered, the citizens gathered and carried the 
order into effect by chopping the bridge down with axes. It was diffi- 
cult to plan a structure that would meet the demand for convenient 
transit on the one hand, and for unobstructed navigation of the river 
on the other and, indeed, the satisfactory solution of that problem has 
not yet been practically accomplished. A nearer approach to it than 
was reached in any previous effort, was made in the construction of the 
first iron bridge in Chicago, at Eush Street, in 1856 ; but a number of 
cattle that happened to be on it when it was turned to allow a vessel to 
pass, crowded to one end or side and overturned it. The jealousies 
between the divisions, which had greatly interfered with the progress 
of these important public improvements, and the slow process of pri- 
vate subscription for their erection, were rapidly giving way to the 
growing needs of the situation, and in 1857 the city took hold of the 
matter and erected a bridge over the South Branch at Madison Street. 
This was the first bridge built entirely at the expense of the munici- 



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pality, and it was the inauguration of a municipal policy that has re- 
sulted in the construction of a valuable iron bridge, swinging on a 
central pier, at every alternate street reaching the river or either of its 
branches, in the business portion of the city. The latest and best of 
these structures is the new double roadway bridge at Rush Street—the 
only one of the kind in the city, and the largest swing bridge in the 
world. It is operated by steam and lighted by electricity, and was 
built at a cost of $130,000. At its formal opening, August 7, 1884, it 
bore a test weight of about 375 tons. For a time the present bridge 
system was comparatively satisfactory, but the city has outgrown it, and 
there is now a strong and growing demand for some plan by which 
transit can be effected without being subject to the frequent annoying 
delays caused by the necessity of opening the bridges for vessels, and 
the accidents that result from that operation. 

The Tunnels under Chicago River, two in number, one at LaSalle 

Street, connecting the 



South Side with the 
North Side, and the 
other at Washington 
Street, connecting the 
West Side with the 
South Side, were con- 
structed with the view 
of supplying more 
convenient passage 
than the bridges af- 
forded. The Washing- 
ton Street Tunnel was 
the first one construct- 
ed, and was finished 
and formally opened 
to the public Jan. 1, 
1869, at a cost of 
$512,707.57. The La 
Salle Street Tunnel 
was completed and 
opened July 1, 1871, 
at a total cost of $566,276.48. It has some improvements in arrange- 
ment and construction suggested by experience with the Washington 
Street passage. The total length of the latter is 1,608 feet, and of 




LaSalle Street Tunnel. 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 37 

the LaSalle Street Tunnel 1,854 feet. Each has a double driveway 
and a separate foot-way on one side, which is reached by stairs. The 
tunnels are wide, lofty, well lighted and ventilated, and each is fairly 
drained by means of a sub-tunnel five feet in diameter, which is con- 
nected with a steam pump at one end. 

The Sewerage System of Chicago is extensive, well arranged and 
efficient, despite the engineering difficulties in securing satisfactory 
drainage of a level area so slightly elevated above the waters of the 
river and lake. Brick or pipe is used for sewers, according to the 
character of drainage required. The total length of sewers of both 
kinds is about 400 miles, laid at a total cost of nearly six and a quarter 
millions of dollars, or an average of $15,493.58 per mile. They are 
kept clean and in repair at an average annual cost of $107.65 per 
mile. There are about 13.000 catch-basins and 15,000 man-hole 
chambers connected with the system. During the year 1883 about 
fourteen and a quarter miles of sewers were laid, and 835 catch-basins 
and 497 man-hole chambers constructed, at a total cost of $232,084.- 
33. The advantages of this important agent of cleanliness and sani- 
tation are very evenly distributed among the three divisions of the 
city, according to their needs. 

The Street Railways of Chicago all start from the business cen- 
ter of the city, and radiate to all sections promising traffic sufficient to 
maintain the lines in operation, thus giving the greatest public accom- 
modation consistent with a reasonable care for the capital invested in 
such enterprises. The fare is universally five cents. The number of 
cars and the time-tables are arranged with due regard for public con- 
venience. The first street railway in the city was laid along State 
Street, and was commenced in the fall of 1858. From that beginning 
the service grew rapidly to its present proportions. The railways are 
operated by three companies, representing three systems, which cor- 
respond with the divisions of the city. The oldest of these com- 
panies is. 

The Chicago City Railway Company whose lines constitute the 
railway system of the South Side. This company has within the past 
two years largely substituted the cable plan of traction in the place 
of horses, and although there have been some difficulties and dangers 
attending its use, they have been largely overcome, and the success of 
the plan may be considered established. These lines alone now have 
an aggregate length of twenty miles, employ 100 "grip-cars," which 
do the work of 2,500 horses, and run an average of nine miles per 



38 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

hour, conveying 100,000 passengers daily. The total number of miles 
of track is seventy-seven; number of cars, 400; average distance 
traversed daily, 25,000 miles ; average, number of passengers carried 
daily, 120,000 ; number of horses, 1,200. The powerful engines 
which operate the cable system are located at the corner of State and 
Twenty-first Streets. 

The North Chicago City Railway Company operates the North Side 
system of street railways. It was organized in 1859, and commenced 
running its cars on North Clark Street and Chicago Avenue in August, 
1859. The capital stock of the company is $500,000; number of 
miles of track, thirty-four ; total number of cars owned, 251 ; num- 
ber of horses, 1,530; average distance traversed daily, 9,600 miles; 
average number of passengers carried daily, 60,000. 

The Chicago West Division Railway Company was incorpo- 
rated in 1863, succeeding to the franchises held by the Chicago 
City Kailway Company on the West Side, and now operates the 
lines in that division. The capital stock of the company is $1,250,- 
000 ; number of miles of track, ninety-seven ; total number of cars 
owned, 634 ; number of horses, 3,375 ; average distance traversed 
daily, 21,620 miles. 

The Chicago Passenger Railway Company has opened up anew street 
car line which greatly adds to the facilities of transportation between 
the West and South Sides. The new line of cars runs on Harrison Street, 
from Western Avenue to Centre Avenue thence north to Adams Street 
and east to Franklin. Here the cars take alternately different directions 
around a "loop;" one car runs northward three or four blocks (to Wash- 
ington Street) then east to Michigan Avenue, proceeding southwardly to 
Adams and back, to and past the Franklin Street turning, while the 
next car goes around the same loop in the reverse direction. 



^rcmspcrfafion 55facilifie0. 

THE RAILROADS, LAKE MICHIGAN, CHICAGO RIVER, AND 
THE CANAL. 

f T^HE transportation facilities of Chicago are the most complete and 
-■- extensive of any inland city in the world. 
The Railroads are so intimately connected with the growth of the 
city that the history of one is practically the chronicle of the other. 
When Chicago first forged her way into the notice of the world, and 
began to foreshadow her present majesty, the railroad was a new 
thing, scarcely emerged from the shadows of uncertain experiment. 
Faith in it was far from general, and the cost of construction, equip- 
ment and operation was appalling to a new country rich only in the 
gifts of nature and in indomitable energy. Moreover, there was deep- 
seated prejudice in favor of water ways. In all the world there were 
not as many miles of railroad as Illinois now boasts. But destiny had 
marked out for the city a meteor course to empire, and she was early 
alive to the necessity for avenues for her commerce. Vast realms rich in 
all the treasures of nature lay at her feet, inviting conquest and inspir- 
ing enterprise. With the necessity came the men whose energy laid the 
basis for that magnificent system of iron roadways to which is chiefly 
due the marvelous development of the west and the northwest, and 
the greatness of the city. Before the close of the third decade of the 
present century, the practical advantages of railroads had begun to 
excite discussion in the city, and in January, 1831, a commission was 
appointed to investigate the relative value of a canal and railroad 
between the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers. A multiplicity of schemes 
sprung up over the state, more or less connected with Chicago. The 
question of a road to be operated in conjunction with the Illinois & 
Michigan Canal was agitated, and a bill to charter such a road, under 
the title of the Illinois Central Railroad, was introduced into the state 
senate by Lieut- Gov. Jenkins, in 1832, but died in its incipiency. 
Many other enterprises were projected, but lay dormant. In 1835 a 
public letter from Sidney Breese, then circuit judge and afterward 
United States senator, revived the agitation of the Illinois Central 



40 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

scheme. Meanwhile the city was pushing her way to the south and 
the west, on paper at least. The first road chartered out of Chicago 
was the Galena & Chicago Union, now a part of the Northwestern sys- 
tem. It was incorporated Jan. 16, 1837, with an authorized capi- 
tal of $100,000, and permission to increase the same to $1,000,000, 
and the charter contemplated propulsion "by steam or animal power." 
Three years were allowed in which to begin work. The survey was 
begun in 1837, but the financial panic of that year caused the collapse 
of the enterprise, and it was not resumed until ten years later. By an 
act of the state legislature, Feb. 27, 1837, the state undertook the 
construction of 1,340 miles of railroad and the Illinois & Michigan 
Canal. Work was begun at once in many quarters, but the magnitude 
of the undertaking crushed it, and gave a blow which retarded prog- 
ress in that direction for several years. In 1847 the work of con- 
structing the Galena road was begun. On the 10th of October the 
first engine ever run out of Chicago, named the "Pioneer," arrived via 
brig " Buffalo," and was put to work on the part of the road then com- 
plete. This engine is still in existence. Nov. 20, 1848, the first wheat 
ever brought to the city by rail was received. In 1852 this road was 
completed to Elgin, forty-two miles, being laid with strap rails. The 
Illinois Central was chartered Jan. 18, 1836, but the enterprise col- 
lapsed, and was not revived till 1850, when the present charter was 
granted. The incipient stages of railroad building were now past. 
Capital, heretofore cautious to timidity, eagerly sought investment in 
this direction, and henceforward roads were to seek the city, not the 
city the roa'ds. The first great east and west line to enter the city 
was the Michigan Southern & Indiana Northern, now the Lake Shore 
& Michigan Southern, Feb. 20, 1852. Just three months later the 
Michigan Central was opened. This was followed by the Chicago & 
Northwestern ; the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy ; the Chicago, Kock 
Island <fc Pacific ; the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago, and the various 
other lines making up the grand system. On the first day of February, 
1854, 1,785 miles of road terminated in the city. The total mileage 
of the systems centering here now is about 32,285 miles. 

The marvel of this system is the magnitude of the lines comprising 
it, and the immense mileage controlled. Sweeping across the continent, 
they give access to all the ports of both oceans, stretch southward to 
the harbors of the Gulf, and, disregarding the boundaries of nations, 
penetrate to the centers of Canada and the Mexican Kepublic. The 
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MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 41 

a cordon of flourishing suburban towns around the city. During 1883 
the average number of regular daily trains arriving were : Passenger, 
123; suburban, 77 ; freight, 141; departing: Passenger, 122; sub- 
urban, 78, and freight, 124 ; total, 665. To these must be added a 
large number of irregular trains which, together with the natural 
increase, and the further increase due to the establishment of new 
lines, will doubtless swell the present aggregate arrivals and departures 
to fully 850. A peculiar feature of the railroad system of the city is 
the number of competing lines reaching to all important points, and 
producing a healthy rivalry, which inures to her benefit in cheap and 
abundant facilities for transportation. It is a notable fact, also, that 
while her sister cities have subscribed enormous sums toward their 
highways, Chicago, in her corporate capacity, has never given one 
dollar of aid, lent her credit, or taken a share of stock in any of the 
multitude of enterprises of this kind associated with her history. 

The Chicago & North-western Railway Company operates 5,646 
miles of roadway, tapping the chief centers and rich agricultural 
regions of Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, 
Dakota and Nebraska, forming one of the principal commercial high- 
ways of the west. Its chief termini are Chicago at the east, Council 
Bluffs at the west, Pierre, Dakota, and St. Paul and Minneapolis at the 
northwest and Ishpenning at the north. It w T as organized June 7, 
1859, by the creditors of the Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad, 
who had succeeded to that property by foreclosure. The line then 
reached from Chicago north ninety-one miles to Janesville, and from 
Fond du Lac south twenty-eight and one-half miles. The Chicago, St. 
Paul & Fond du Lac Company grew out of a consolidation March 30, 
1855, of the Illinois & Wisconsin and the Kock River Valley Compa- 
nies, chartered respectively in Illinois and Wisconsin early in 1851. 
The policy of the new company was vigorous from the start. Before 
the close of 1859 through trains Avere running from Chicago to Fond 
du Lac, and an era of extension and absorption was inaugurated w T hich 
has culminated in the present gigantic system. In 1882 the various 
companies whose lines had been absorbed were merged into the Chi- 
cago & Northwestern Company by formal proceedings. Since that time 
the Northwestern has acquired control of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minne- 
apolis & Omaha Railway by the purchase of 147,000 shares of its stock, 
and of the Sioux City & Pacific Railway by purchase. The system is 
divided into five principal divisions or lines. Skirting the shores of 
Lake Michigan, the first of these penetrates, via Milwaukee, the Michi- 



42 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

gan peninsula. The second, passing more to the northwest, sweeps 
away through Madison, Beloit, and on to Minneapolis and St. Paul. 
Diverging from this line at Elroy, a third grand division takes a west- 
erly course, crosses the Mississippi River at Winona, traverses Minne- 
sota, and halts at Pierre, Dakota. The fourth line leaves Chicago, heads 
due west, crosses Illinois and Iowa, and terminates at Council Bluffs; 
and the fifth, leaving this line at Tama, 134 miles beyond the Missis- 
sippi, sweeps northward into Dakota. The equipment of the road 
includes 593 engines and 19,867 freight and passenger cars. The 
passenger station of the company at the southwest corner of Wells and 
Kinzie Streets is a massive structure of red pressed brick, with cut 
stone trimmings, in an attractive style of architecture. Adjoining on 
the south, and on North State, West Kinzie and at the corner of Canal 
and Sixteenth Streets, are located the freight depots. The general 
office is at 56 Kinzie Street. The principal ticket offices are at the 
depot and at 62 Clark Street. 

The Michigan Central Railroad is the great central highway of 
Michigan, through which it ramifies in every direction, and brings 
tributary to Chicago the vast and fertile region bordered by the great 
lakes — Michigan, Erie and Huron. It is also a great thoroughfare to 
the east, especially favored by summer tourists because of its magnifi- 
cent scenery and cool atmosphere. The construction of the main line, 
which runs from Detroit to Kensington, 111., 270 miles, was begun in 
1836 by the Detroit & St. Joseph Railroad Company, chartered June 
29, 1832. April 22, 1837, that company disposed of its property and 
franchises to the state of Michigan, and under the auspices of the 
state the road was opened from Detroit to Ypsilanti, thirty miles, Feb. 
3, 1838 ; to Ann Arbor, eight miles, Oct. 17, 1839, and in similar 
small sections annually to Kalamazoo, 144 miles, Feb. 2, 1846, when 
the legislature refused further appropriations for the work. In this 
year the present company was chartered and purchased the road, tak- 
ing possession Saptember 24th. The price paid was $2,000,000, 
entailing a loss of $500,000 to the state. In May, 1852, the line was 
finished to Kensington. From this point it enters Chicago, fourteen 
miles distant, via the Illinois Central track, over which it holds a lease, 
and uses as a passenger station the depot owned jointly with that road 
at the foot of Lake Street, the freight depots being located at the foot 
of South Water Street. The following are the lines operated by the 
company, including the Canada Southern and other leased roads : 
Chicago to Niagara Falls and Buffalo, 512.9 miles ; Lake to Joliet, 45 ; 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 43 

Niles to Jackson, 103.4; Niles to South Bend, 11.1; Kalamazoo to 
South Haven, 39.5 ; Jackson to Grand Kapids, 93.9 ; Jackson to Bay 
City, 114.2 ; Bay City to Mackinac City, 182 ; Beaver Lake to Sage's 
Lake, 8 ; Pinconning to Bowen's Branch, 35 ; Detroit to Bay City, 109; 
Vassar to Saginaw City, 22.3; Lapeer to Five Lakes, 8.5; Vassar to 
Caro, 13; Detroit to Toledo, 59.3; Essex Center to Amherstburg, 
15.7; Air Line Crossing to Courtright, 62.6; (Michigan, Midland and 
Canada Kailway) St. Clair to Ridgeway, 15 ; Petrolea Branch, 5 ; Niag- 
ara Junction to Niagara, 27.7 ; Welland to Buffalo, 23 ; total, 1,506.1 
miles. The line now crosses the Niagara River on its new cantilever 
bridge, just below the falls. The equipment of rolling stock comprises 
396 locomotives and 11,362 cars of all kinds. The general offices are 
at Detroit. The Chicago offices are at 183 Dearborn Street. 

The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway was begun by the 
state of Michigan with the purpose of building a line through its 
southern tier of counties, connecting Monroe on Lake Erie with New 
Buffalo on Lake Michigan. Eighteen miles laid with strap rails were 
completed from Monroe to Petersburg in 1839, extended to Adrian in 
1840, and to Hillsdale in 1843, when the state, being unable to secure 
funds for its further construction, sold the property in 1846 to the 
Michigan Southern Railway Company, organized in May of that year. 
In 1835 the Northern Indiana Railroad Company was chartered by the 
state of Indiana, as the Buffalo & Mississippi Railroad Company, and 
was organized two years later. The financial disasters of 1837 
delayed the enterprise until 1849, when the property was acquired 
by the Michigan Southern Company, which decided to make Chicago 
the western terminus, and by which the work was pushed vigorously, 
the line from lake to lake, 243 miles in length, being opened May 22, 
1852. In 1849 possession of the Erie & Kalamazoo, from Toledo to 
Adrian, thirty-three miles, was acquired by perpetual lease. This line 
had previously been laid with strap rails and operated with horse 
power. The Palmyra & Jacksonburg Railroad was opened to Tecum- 
seh, thirteen miles, in 1838, sold to the state of Michigan for $22,000 
in 1844, and was included in the sale by the state to the Michigan 
Southern Company, by which it was finished to Jackson. The Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company was organized under 
the laws of Ohio in 1869, and was formed by a consolidation of the 
system just described with the Cleveland & Toledo, a consolidation, 
Sept. 1, 1853, of the Toledo, Norwalk & Cleveland, and the junction 
railroads extending from Toledo to Cleveland ; the Cleveland, Plains- 



44 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

ville & Ashtabula, running from Cleveland to Erie, and the Buffalo & 
Erie Kailroad. There were 927.23 miles of road included in this consol- 
idation which has been increased, by purchase, lease and construction to 
1,405.56 miles. The main line is from Chicago to Buffalo via Cleve- 
land, 540.04 miles, and is double tracked throughout. The passenger 
depot is on Van Buren Street, corner Sherman. City offices at depot. 
General offices at Cleveland, Ohio. Controlling interest was recently 
acquired in the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Kailway, and the two 
roads are now operated conjointly. 

The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad stretches from Chicago 
to Denver, and envelops the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Col- 
orado, Missouri and Kansas in a net- work of roadways and branches 
aggregating upwards of 3,400 miles. It taps the coal fields at Streator, 
sweeps west and southwest to St. Louis, Kansas City, Leavenworth, St. 
Joseph, Atchison and Denver, Omaha, Lincoln, Des Moines, Burling- 
ton and Davenport. The road was chartered in 1852 as the Chicago 
& Aurora (from Chicago to Aurora, some forty miles), but was consoli- 
dated with the Central Military Tract Kailroad and reorganized under 
present name July 9, 1856. The purchase of the Northern Cross 
Bailroad, in 1860, extended the line to Quincy, and the Peoria & 
Oquawka two years later, gave it a through line to Burlington. In 
1875 the Burlington & Missouri Koad in Iowa, and in 1880 the same road 
in Nebraska, was absorbed. And thus the vast landed estate of the 
company in Iowa and Nebraska was obtained. From 1880 extensions 
and acquisitions have followed each other rapidly. The road is re- 
nowned for the excellence of its equipment. Principal offices, corner 
Adams and Franklin Streets. Passenger station, Union Depot, Canal 
Street, Perceval Lowell is General Passenger Agent. 

The Illinois Central Railroad enters the city from the south over six 
tracks lying along the lake shore. It is a popular route of suburban 
travel, and has passenger stations at short intervals along the city and 
suburban portion of the line, which includes a branch from Park Side 
to South Chicago, 4.76 miles. The company was chartered in Decem- 
ber, 1850; organization completed February 10th following. An act 
of Congress made a land grant to the road, conditioned on its comple- 
tion within six years, and payment to the state of Illinois of seven per 
cent of the gross earnings. The latter is now a source of considerable 
revenue to the state. The entire line from Chicago to Cairo, 364.73 
miles, and from Centralia to Dubuque, la., 340.77 miles, was opened 
ior traffic Sept. 26, 1856. The Chicago & Springfield, a reorganiza- 




Union Depot, Canal Street, Between Madison and Adams Stf 



USED BY: CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY; CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL; CHICAGO & ALTON; PITTS- 
BURGH, FT. WAYNE & CHICAGO, AND CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS <g PITTSBURGH RAILROADS. 



46 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

tion of the Gilman, Clinton & Springfield Eoad, 111.47 miles, was 
leased in 1877. The Kankakee & Southwestern, from Otto to Chats- 
worth, was built the following year, and was subsequently extended to 
Normal Junction, 79.46 miles. A branch from Kempton to Kankakee 
Junction, 111., 41.8 miles, and from Buckingham to Tracy, ten miles, 
were also added. The Dubuque & Sioux City, the Iowa Falls & Sioux 
City, and the Cedar Falls & Minnesota Koads, having a total of 402.16 
miles, are operated under lease. In 1882 almost the entire stock of the 
Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans Kailway was acquired, and the con- 
trol of the system extending from Cairo to New Orleans, 548 miles, 
with branches from the main line to Kosciusko and Lexington, Miss., 
30.30 miles. In 1884 a branch was opened from Jackson, Miss., to 
Yazoo City, 45.34 miles, and from Kosciusko to Aberdeen, 86.67. 
Total number of miles in .the system, 2,064.76. General office, 78 
Michigan Avenue. Depots, foot of Lake Street. 

The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway was the first road to 
reach the Mississippi from Chicago. Originally organized as the Rock 
Island & LaSalle Railroad in 1847, it was reorganized and chartered as 
the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, Feb. 7, 1851, and the line was 
opened to the Mississippi River July 10, 1854. Upon consolidation 
with the Mississippi & Missouri Railway Company Aug. 20, 1866, 
the present title was assumed. The extension to the Missouri River, 
and to a junction with the Union Pacific Railroad was completed in 
1869. The Kansas City extension, built by the Iowa Southern & Mis- 
souri Northern Railway Company, was subsequently purchased, and the 
Hannibal & St. Joseph, the Peoria & Bureau Valley, and the Keokuk 
& Des Moines Roads were leased. June 4, 1880, a formal consolidation 
was effected, absorbing the following roads : Sou h Chicago Branch, 
Washington Branch, Iowa Southern & Missouri Northern Railroad, 
Atchison,Des Moines, Indianola and Wiuterset Branches, Newton & Mon- 
roe, Atlantic Southern, Avoca, Macedonia &' Southwestern, and the Atlan- 
tic & Audubon Roads, making the total mileage owned 1,120.9, exclu- 
sive of side tracks, and an aggregate of 1,796 mi es operated. Among 
the chief terminal points are: Chicago. Peoria, Kansas City, Rock 
Island, Council Bluffs, Atchison, Davenport, Des Moines, Leavenworth 
and Keokuk. Control of the " Albert Lea Route," acquired in 1881, 
greatly augmented the mileage and furnished an inlet to Minneapolis 
and St. Paul. Freight depots, Fourth Avenue and Twelfth Street. 
Passenger depot, Van Buren Street, between Pacific Avenue and Sher- 
man Street- E}. St. John is general passenger agent. 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. . 47 

The Chicago & Alton Railroad. with its leased lines, forms a grand 
trunk system spanning the states of Illinois and Missouri, and connect- 
ing the cities of Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City, via Joliet, Bloom- 
ington and Springfield. The total length of line operated is about 
1,050 miles. The main line proper reaches from Joliet to Alton. It 
was chartered as the Chicago & Mississippi Elver Eailroad Feb. 27, 
1847, and opened for traffic in 1855. It was reorganized as the St. 
Louis, Alton & Chicago Eailroad in 1857, and the main line extended 
from Alton to East St. Louis two years later, giving it a total length of 
243i miles. The present company was formed Feb. 16, 1861, and 
came into possession, by foreclosure, in the year following. Entrance 
into Chicago was secured by a lease in perpetuity of the Joliet & 
Chicago Eailroad, thirty-seven miles in length. In 1879 the Chicago 
& Illinois Eiver Eailroad, now operated as the Coal City Branch, was 
purchased, and in the same year the Kansas City, St. Louis & Chicago 
Eailroad, just completed, was acquired by perpetual lease. In 1872 
the Louisiana & Missouri Eiver Eailroad, and in 1877 the Mississippi 
Bridge had been similarly acquired, as had also the St. Louis, Jackson- 
ville & Chicago Eailroad, since consolidated with the controlling com- 
pany. The Upper Alton line was extended to Milton in 1882. The 
equipment embraces some 220 engines, and about 6,200 cars of all 
kinds, including dining, sleeping, parlor and reclining chair cars. 
The freight depots are at the corner of West Van Buren and South 
Canal Streets. Passenger trains use the Union Depot on Canal Street. 
The general offices are located at the northwest corner of Dearborn 
and Adams Streets. The ticket office is at 89 South Clark. 

The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway is a part of the 
great Pennsylvania system. It is over this line that the limited 
express, composed entirely of palace sleepers, runs between Chicago 
and New York, in twenty-five hours. The company is successor, by 
consolidation Aug. 1, 1856, of the Ohio & Pennsylvania Company, 
chartered in Ohio Feb. 24, 1848, and in Pennsylvania April 11th of 
the same year ; the Ohio & Indiana Company, chartered in Ohio March 
20, 1850, and in Indiana Jan. 15, 1851, and the Fort Wayne & Chicago 
Company organized in Indiana Sept. 22, 1852, and in Illinois Feb. 5, 
1853. The entire line from Chicago to Pittsburg, 468.39 miles, was 
opened for business Jan. 1, 1859; sold under foreclosure Oct. 24, 
1861, and reorganized under the present title Feb. 26, 1862. On the 
27th of June, 1869, the road was leased in perpetuity to the Pennsyl- 
vania system, to which it has proved profitable, at a rental of 1% per 



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annum on the capital stock. Depots and local offices, corner Canal and 
Madison Streets. General offices at Pittsburgh. 

The Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company succeeded the Chi- 
cago, Danville & Vincennes Company, which was organized F,eb. 16, 
1865. The road was sold under foreclosure Feb. 9, 1877, and present 
company was organized in August following. Main line extends from 
Danville, 111., to Dolton, seventeen miles south of Chicago, whence cars 
enter the city over the Chicago & Western Indiana. The Evansville, 
Terre Haute & Chicago Koad is operated under a 999 years' lease. 
Freight trains are run over the Indiana, Bloomington & Western 
Railway to Covington, 111., and thence over its own line to Coal Creek, 
nine miles. A branch, thirteen miles, extends from Wellington to 
Cisna Park, and another from Danville to Sidell, twenty -two miles, 
through the Grape Creek coal fields. From Otter Creek Junction a 
leased line extends to Brazil, Ind. General offices, 123 Dearborn Street. 
The Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburgh Railroad succeeded to the 
franchises of the Columbus & Indianapolis Railroad, a new company 
being formed April 2, 1883. A direct line from Chicago connects with 
the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad at Columbus, Ohio, and 
another to Indianapolis, Ind., connects with the Jeffersonville, Madi- 
son & Indianapolis Railroad. The main ]ine, 187.15 miles, is from 
Columbus to Indianapolis. From Bradford Junction, Ohio, a branch, 
230.98 miles, extends to Chicago, and from Richmond, Ind., a branch, 
102.22 miles, extends to Anoka Junction. A third branch, 60.19 miles, 
runs from Peoria Junction, Ind., to Illinois State line — making a total 
length of roadway of 580.54 miles. Union Passenger Depot, Canal 
Street. Freight depots, corner Carroll Avenue and North Halsted 
Street, and Carroll Avenue and Clinton Street. The Pennsylvania Com- 
pany holds a majority of the stock and operates the road. 

The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway sweeps westward in 
four great parallels, the first of which crosses the state of Illinois via 
Elgin, spans the Mississippi at Savanna, throws off branches south- 
ward to Rock Island, Davenport and Ottumwa, and stretches on to 
Council Bluffs. The second line leaves Milwaukee via Madison and Prai- 
rie Du Chien, throws branches to Sioux City, Yankton and Running 
Water. The third parallel passes north via Milwaukee, thence west via 
Portage and La Crosse, traverses southern Minnesota and penetrates far 
into Dakota. Leaving the first 'ine at the Mississippi River, the fourth 
grand division follows the Father of Waters north past Dubuque, 
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MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 49 

strikes direct for St. Paul and Minneapolis, and runs thence to Ellen- 
dale and Aberdeen, Dakota, and continuing south to Mitchell it strikes 
the Iowa and Dakota division. The intermediate territory between 
the parallels is filled with branches and minor lines which increase the 
total mileage operated to 4,804.6 miles. The company, which holds a 
charter from the state of Wisconsin, its chief offices being at Milwaukee, 
was formed by a consolidation in 1873 of the Milwaukee & Waukesha, 
the Madison & Prairie Du Chien, the La Crosse & Milwaukee, and the 
St. Paul & Chicago companies, with a total of 1,399 miles of track, which 
was augmented in 1878 to 1,539 miles. In the next year 535 miles 
were added by purchase and construction, 143 of Avhich were in 
Dakota, the purchases including the Western Union, the Davenport & 
Northwestern, the Minnesota Southern, and the Minnesota Extension 
railroads. In 1880 349 miles of road were built and 1,193 miles pur- 
chased, and in the next year 442 miles of road were constructed. Dur- 
ing 1882 the total mileage was increased to 4,520 miles, which, up to 
July 15, 1884, had been further augmented to 4,804.6 miles as above 
stated. The equipment of the road is very complete, numbering 626 
engines and 19,018 cars of all classes. Passenger trains use the Union 
Depot at Canal and Madison Streets. The freight depots are at the 
corner of Carroll Avenue and North Union Street. Grain elevators are 
at the corner of North Canal Street and Carroll Avenue. Ticket offices 
are at 63 Clark Street and at the Union Depot. F. A. Miller is the gen- 
eral agent in Chicago. The general office is at Milwaukee, Wis. 

The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway, better known as 
the " Monon Koute," traverses the entire length of the state of Indiana 
from north to south and has for its termini Chicago, Louisville, Indian- 
apolis and Michigan City. It owns a one -fifth interest in a leasehold 
of the Chicago & Western Indiana Kailroad, over whose line it enters 
the city from Hammond, Ind., and uses jointly with other roads the 
new passenger station of that company at Polk Street and Fourth 
Avenue. It also holds a one-fifth interest in the Belt Railway of Chi- 
cago, The original line was chartered by the state of Indiana, Jan. 25, 
1847, under the name of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Kail- 
road, and sold under foreclosure and reorganized by the first mortgage 
creditors under its present name, Dec. 27, 1872. It was opened July 
4, 1852, and extended from Michigan City to New Albany, 288 miles. 
On the 10th of July, 1881, it was consolidated with the Chicago & 
Indianapolis Air Line Kailroad, which was a reorganization of the 
Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago, under the charter of which the com- 
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50 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

pany completed its line from Delphi to Hammond in January, 1882, 
crossing the main line at Monon. Later in the same year a contract 
was concluded with the Pennsylvania Company whereby that company 
doubled its track between the junction of the two roads and the Louis- 
ville bridge, and track privileges were secured over the same by lease 
for ninety-nine years, and an entrance into Louisville gained. The 
track from Chicago to Louisville, 317 miles in length, is now operated 
as the main line. The line from Monon to Michigan City, fifty-nine 
miles, is known as the Northern division, and the branch from Monon 
to Indianapolis, ninety-four miles, opened for traffic March 25, 1883, 
as the Indianapolis division. A feature of the route is a through line 
of sleepers from Chicago to Jacksonville, Fla. By an arrangement now 
in effect with the C. H. & I). E. B. a through line of Pullman buffet 
sleepers, parlor chair cars, in fact, solid train service is being per- 
formed between Chicago and Cincinnati via Indianapolis, and by simi- 
lar arrangements with the Chicago & Indiana Coal Ey., through coach 
service is in effect between Chicago and Brazil, Ind., via Fair Oaks. 
The equipment embraces sixty engines and 2,400 cars of all descrip- 
tions. The freight depots of the Western Indiana Eailroad at the cor- 
ner of Polk Street and Fourth Avenue are used. The ticket office is at 
73 Clark Street, and the general offices are at 183 Dearborn Street. 

The Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway now forms the western 
extension of the Grand Trunk Eailway of Canada by which it is 
operated, and with which it forms a continuous line from Chicago 
through Indiana and Michigan and Canada to Portland, Me., and the 
Atlantic coast, embracing, with branches and auxiliary lines, a total 
mileage of 3,330 miles. Its termini are Montreal, Detroit, Niagara 
Falls, Buffalo, Chicago, Goderich, Quebec and Portland. The main 
line of the Chicago & Grand Trunk Eailway extends from Chicago to 
Port Huron, Mich., a distance of 335 miles. It also operates four miles 
of the Grand Trunk Junction Eailroad, and four and a half miles of the 
Western Indiana Eoad, over which it enters the city from Forty-ninth 
Street, running into the Union Depot of that road at Third Avenue and 
Polk Street, which it uses as a passenger station. The company is the' 
result of a consolidation, effected April 7, 1880, of the Port Huron & 
Lake Michigan, opened in December, 1871, and the Peninsula Eail- 
road, opened in 1872 (which were consolidated under the name of the 
Chicago & Lake Huron Eailroad, in August, 1873, and extended to 
Valparaiso, Ind.), with the line between Lansing and Flint, Mich., 
built by the Northwestern Eailroad Company, and the extension from 



52 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOR OF CHICAGO. 

Valparaiso to Chicago, built by the Northwestern Grand Trunk Bail- 
way Company, and opened Feb. 8, 1880. The rolling stock of the 
Chicago & Grand Trunk proper consists of 135 locomotive engines 
and 1,169 cars for all purposes. The Grand Trunk system, however, 
of which it forms the western division, owns over 21,000 cars and 
some 700 locomotives. The freight depots are at Twelfth Street and 
Third Avenue. The ticket offices are at 103 Washington Street, and 
at the depot. The main offices are at Port Huron and Detroit, Mich. 
The Chicago office is in the First National Bank building. 

The Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway is a vast system of con- 
necting lines formed by consolidation, purchase and lease of its various 
parts, aggregating 3,601.2 miles. It is an important highway. The main 
line of the road, 712.2 miles long, extends from Toledo, Ohio, via St. 
Louis to Kansas City. Other principal lines reach out to Chicago, 
Burlington, Council Bluffs, and less important termini. The Chicago 
line is formed of the Chicago & Strawn Kailroad from Strawn, Illinois, 
to a junction with the Chicago & Western Indiana Bailroad near Chi- 
cago, 97.8 miles, whence it enters the city via the latter road, 1.9 
miles, making use of the terminal facilities of the Chicago & Western 
Indiana, including the Union Depot at Fourth Avenue and Polk Street. 
The Chicago & Strawn Eoad was acquired by purchase Aug. 1, 1880, 
and the Chicago & Paducah, 165 miles, April 1, 1880, and merged into 
the main corporation. The other terminal facilities include the use of 
the freight depot of the Western Indiana Company at Twelfth Street 
and Fourth Avenue. The rolling stock consists of 614 engines and 
20,177 cars of all descriptions. On the 10th of April, 1883, the road 
and property of the company were leased for 99 years to the St. Louis, 
Iron Mountain & Southern Bailroad which was itself leased to the Mis- 
souri Pacific Bailroad Company, which thereby came into control and 
with which close connections were formed advantageous to through 
traffic to the Pacific slope. The principal offices are established at St. 
Louis. In the summer of 1884 Solon Humphreys and Thomas E. Tutt 
were appointed receivers. The local ticket office is at 109 Clark Street. 
The local freight offices are at the freight depot corner of Twelfth 
Street and Fonrth Avenue. 

The Chicago & West Michigan Railway, whose main line extends 
from La Crosse, Ind.,to Pentwater, Mich., 208.74 miles, with branches 
ramifying through the adjacent territories and making up a total mile- 
age of 409.74 miles, has* recently secured an entrance into Chicago 
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South Water Street it uses, and it constitutes with its connections a 
through line to Manistee, Ludington, Grand Kapids, Muskegon, Grand 
Haven, and all points in western Michigan. Parlor and sleeping cars 
are run on all trains. This company was formed Oct. 1, 1881, by the 
consolidation of the Chicago & West Michigan Kailroad, from New 
Buffalo to Pentwater, 170 miles, with branches 91.9 miles ; the Grand 
Kapids, Newaygo & Lake Shore Kailroad from Grand Kapids to White 
Cloud, forty-six miles, organized Sept. 11, 1869 ; the Grand Haven 
Kailroad from Allegan to Muskegon, fifty -seven and a half miles, and 
the Indiana & Michigan Kailroad, of Indiana. The company first 
named was organized Jan. 1, 1879, as the successor of the Chicago & 
Michigan Lake Shore Kailroad Company, which was organized April 
24, 1869, opened its main line July 1, 1873, and was sold under fore- 
closure and reorganized Nov. 16, 1878. In 1882 the Indiana & 
Michigan Railway was opened to La Crosse. By a recent arrangement 
the company now runs through daily trains from Grand Kapids to 
Cincinnati over the tracks of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & 
Chicago Kailway. The equipment includes some thirty engines and 
900 cars of all classes. The general offices and address of the road is 
at Muskegon, Mich. The local ticket office is at 67 Clark Street. 

The Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad was organized under the 
statutes of Illinois June 6, 1879, for the purpose of leasing its road 
and terminal facilities in the city and vicinity to other companies. It 
owns the splendid new Union Depot now in process of construction at 
Fourth Avenue and Polk Street, together with freight depots and ware- 
houses at Twelfth Street and Third Avenue, which, together with the 
track, are used jointly by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, the Wabash, 
St. Louis & Pacific, the Chicago & Grand Trunk, the Chicago & 
Atlantic, and the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Companies. It also 
owns an elevator on the Chicago Kiver near Eighteenth Street with 
capacity of 1,500,000 bushels. The road was opened in May, 1880, 
and in the following year the company was consolidated with the 
South Chicago & Western Indiana Kailroad Company, whereby access 
to the iron and lumber interests at South Chicago was secured, and 
with the Chicago & Western Indiana Belt Kailway Company affording 
connection for the transfer of cars with the various roads centering in 
Chicago. The Belt division is leased by the Belt Kailway of Chicago. 
The track owned by the company includes the line from Polk Street to 
Dalton, Hlinois, 16.69 miles, the Hammond extension, 10.28 miles, 
and the Belt division, 24.68 miles, making a total of 51.69 miles. The 



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annual rental is $760,000. The rolling stock includes 12 locomotives 
and 155 cars, principally platform cars. The company also owns 
sixty-seven acres of land within the city limits, and 146 acres in the 
immediate suburbs, including some very valuable wharf property. 
The principal offices are at 94 Washington Street. 

The Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Railway, popu- 
larly known as the "Big Four," or the "Kankakee Koute," constitutes 
a through line between Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville and Cincin- 
nati, and at the last two places forms through connection for all points 
in the south. The company grew out of a consolidation in 1866 of 
the Cincinnati & Indianapolis and the Lafayette & Indianapolis Kail- 
roads, taking at that' time the title of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati & 
Lafayette Eailroad, and operated the main line from Cincinnati to 
Lafayette, 174.90 miles, until sold under foreclosure, Feb. 2, 1880. 
It was then purchased in behalf of those formerly interested in it, and 
a new company organized, which took possession March 6th of the 
same year. The Cincinnati, Lafayette & Chicago Eailroad (Lafayette 
to Kankakee, seventy-five and a half miles,) was leased Sept. 1, 1880, 
and incorporated into the main line, and an entrance from Kankakee 
into Chicago over the line of the Illinois Central was acquired by con- 
tract. This contract also secured the use of the terminal stations of 
the latter road at' the foot of Lake and South Water Streets. The 
company owns a half interest in and operates the Kankakee & Seneca 
Eailroad between the points named, 42.32 miles, and a branch to 
Lawrenceburg, Ind., 2.60 miles. It also operates, under perpetual 
lease, a line from Valley Junction to Harrison, Ohio, 7.40 miles; 
another from Fairland to Martinsville, Ind., 38.30 miles; and a third 
from'Greensburg to North Vernon, Ind., 44.39 miles, making the total 
lines operated 385.41 miles. The rolling stock consists of seventy- 
five engines and 3,173 cars of all kinds. The general offices of the 
road are at Cincinnati. The local ticket office is at 121 Eandolph 
Street, and the local freight office 130 Washington Street. 

The New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway, better known as 
the "Nickel Plate," was organized as a competing line for the traffic 
formerly controlled by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Eailroad, 
with which it runs parallel through the same territory a few miles to 
the south. The company was organized April 13, 1881, under the 
laws of New York, and began work in the same year. The line stretch- 
ing from Chicago, via Ft. Wayne, along the shores of Lake Erie to 
Buffalo, 513.28 miles, was opened for business Oct. 23, 1882. The 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 55 

roadway is laid with steel rails, and the line is some twenty-five miles 
shorter than the "Lake Shore Route." Recently control of the line 
has been obtained by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad 
Company through the purchase of some $26,530,000 of its stock, and 
it is now operated in conjunction with that road, and uses the same 
depots in this city. 

The Baltimore & Ohio & Chicago Railroad forms a part of the 
great Baltimore & Ohio system, the picturesque and popular through 
line to the Atlantic border. It was chartered March 13, 1872, 
as the Baltimore, Pittsburg & Chicago Railroad, and opened for 
traffic in November, 1874. The line, which was built and is owned by 
the Baltimore & Ohio Company, extends from Chicago Junction, Ohio, 
to Parkside Junction, Illinois, on the Illinois Central Railroad, 262.60 
miles. From Parkside Junction it enters the city over the track of 
the road last named, a distance of eight and a half miles, making use 
of a temporary passenger station at the foot of Monroe Street, adjoin- 
ing the Exposition building on the north. An extension of the line is 
also* in progress to Pittsburg. The present title was adopted in 1877. 
The principal offices are located at 83 Clark Street, the resident officers 
of the road being A. P. Bigelow, general agent, and T. H. Dearborn, 
general northwestern passenger agent. The general officers are those 
of the Baltimore & Ohio Company. The chief ticket office is also at 
83 Clark Street. The freight depots are at the foot of South Water 
Street. The rolling stock of the road is that of the Baltimore & Ohio 
system, and is unsurpassed in point of excellence. This is the only 
through line east from Chicago via Washington City. 

The Belt Railway Company was chartered Nov. 22, 1882. May 
1, 1883, under lease from the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad 
Company, it assumed control and commenced to operate what is now 
known as the Belt Railway of Chicago, a track beginning at South 
Chicago and extending west about eleven miles, thence north about 
eleven miles to a connection with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 
Railway, and connecting between those two terminal points with all 
railroads entering the city. This road does a general transfer or 
switching business between the various railroads, and to and from the 
industries located on its own line. It is situated outside the city 
limits, on the open prairie. It is equipped with nine powerful loco- 
motives, and 130 flat cars. The total length of the line is 22.20 
miles. The office of the company is at 94 Washington Street. 

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56 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

poses, extending from Morgan Street to Ada Street, Chicago, 1.44 
miles, and forming a connection between the Chicago, Milwaukee & 
St. Paul and the "Pan Handle " tracks, with a number of coal and lum- 
ber yards, elevators and warehouses. The road-bed and tracks oper- 
ated were acquired by lease, Oct. 5, 1881, for 99 years, from the Chi- 
cago & Eastern Illinois Kailroad Company. The office is at 87 Dear- 
born Street. 

The Chicago & Atlantic Railroad runs across the northern portion 
of Indiana, south of the " Ft. Wayne Eoute," 269 miles to a junction 
with the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Kailroad at Marion, Ohio, in 
connection with which it is operated, and forms an additional through 
line to the Atlantic coast. The company is the outgrowth of a consol- 
idation June 19, 1873, of the Chicago & Atlantic Railroad Com- 
pany, organized as the Chicago, Continental & Baltimore Eailroad 
Company Dec. 1, 1871, and the Chicago & Atlantic Extension Rail- 
way Company, formed March 15, 1873. Into the company thus 
formed was also merged, July 15, 1873, the Baltimore, Pittsburg & 
Continental Eailroad Company, which had been organized Nov. 18, 
1871. Track laying was completed in 1882, and the road was form- 
ally opened on the 17th of June of the following year. The main 
line of the road extends from Marion, 257 miles, to a junction with 
the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad, 19.5 miles from the city. 
The latter road is thence used into the city, together with its terminal 
facilities. The general offices of the company are at the corner of 
Clark and Fourteenth Streets. 

The Chicago & Evanston Railroad Company is organized under a 
charter granted Feb. 16, 1861. The authorized capital stock is 
$1,000,000, of which $565,700 are paid in. The road is completed to 
Calvary, a distance of about nine miles, and will probably be in opera- 
tion to Evanston very early in 1885. The piece of road from Wabansia 
Avenue along Hawthorn Avenue to Larrabee Street is owned jointly 
with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company. The com- 
pany proposes to construct a track from Larrabee Street to the Union 
Depot on Canal Street. This road has encountered many difficulties 
that have greatly retarded its construction. The office of the company 
is at No. 8 Ashland Block. 

Lake Michigan, one of the chain of great inland seas which, with 
their connections, form a grand internal and international waterway, 
was, until within the past half century, practically the only commercial 
highway of the city, and still continues, despite the fierce competition 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 57 

of railroads, one of the great arteries of her- trade and an important 
agent in her prosperity. Along its shore came first the light canoes of 
the Indians, to barter with the traders at the primitive post. With 
increasing traffic grew up a demand for heavier boats, which was met 
by the "Mackinaw" barges used largely in the fur trade. These did 
not wholly disappear from the lake until 1830, As the commerce of 
the city widened, the lake constituted the sole avenue to the east, and 
over its bosom and through the straits came and went the first car- 
goes. Then, as the natural resources of the country were developed 
and cultivated, it brought within the city's reach the iron and copper 
and timber of the north, and the products of its bordering fields, and 
bound her in close connection with the thriving communities on its 
shores. It is now the avenue of a splendid commerce, extending to 
Manitoba in the far northwest, through the straits to the busy cities on 
the eastern lakes and the shores of the picturesque St. Lawrence, giving 
direct communication with Milwaukee, Erie, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit 
and other important points, and access via the Erie and Welland Canals 
to the Atlantic seaboard and European ports. Over the lake passes a 
large percentage of the direct imports and exports of the city, which 
amounted in 1841 to $1,848,362, and in 1883 to $13,647,551, 
exclusive of duty. The lake also provides a cheap route to the coal 
fields of Pennsylvania and the lumber regions of the north, and has 
made Chicago the distributing point for these commodities for the 
great northwest, and the greatest lumber market in the world. 

The first vessel to arrive at Chicago was the schooner " Tracy," in 
1803, bringing soldiers and supplies for the fort. At that time, and 
until 1833, there was no harbor, and a bar across the mouth of the 
river prevented access to it. Vessels were anchored off shore, and 
unloaded or loaded by lighters. In the year named, after long and 
patient effort, Congress was induced to appropriate $25,000, and the 
building of the present magnificent harbor was begun, access being 
gained to the river in the following spring. Lighthouses were built 
bat found ineffective, and the harbor was unprotected until 1870, 
when the present breakwater, now approaching completion, stretching 
across the inlet and enclosing the spacious inner harbor, with its light- 
house, was begun. In 1835 some 212 vessels arrived in port. From 
1832 occasional steamboats touched at Chicago, but it was not till 
1839 that the first regular line was established. This line of boats 
plied between the city and Buffalo. In 1856 the first clearance for 
Europe direct was made by the steamer "Dean Richmond," and the 



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first direct arrival from -abroad did not occur till the folloAving year. 
The total arrivals in port in 1883 were 11,967 vessels, having a ton- 
nage of 3,812,464 tons, and the total clearances were 12,015 vessels, 
with a tonnage of 3,980,873 tons. 

The Chicago River is properly an internal waterway of the city, 
intimately connected with the lake and constituting an essential part 
of the harbor. Its shores are continuous lines of docks bordered by 
mammoth warehouses, elevators and yards for heavy traffic in coal, 
lumber, etc., and giving anchorage to the multitude of vessels plying 
the lake. As it now is, the river is more a creation of man than of 
nature. The original bed was comparatively shallow and narrow, and 
near its mouth turned abruptly southward, entering the lake by a tor- 
tuous channel, over a bar which blocked the passage of vessels. As 
early as 1805 an agent of the government suggested the cutting away 
of the bar, but his idea only contemplated the clearing of a passage 
for the admission of the Mackinaw trading crafts, and was not given 
attention. The first vessel to enter the waters of the river was the 
"Westward Ho," which was hauled over the bar by oxen in 1833. In 
March of the same year work was begun on the Government piers, and 
before the close of the following year both the north and south 
piers had been pushed out some 500 feet, cutting off the old tor- 
tuous channel to the south. In the spring of 1834 a freshet did 
the work of dredging, and vessels of heavy burden entered the river 
for the first time. The timbers for piers were first rafted from the 
Calumet Kiver, and the stone was procured some three miles up 
the South Branch. Later the timbers were brought from Wisconsin 
and Michigan. Up to 1838 the piers were annually pushed further 
into the lake, but the continuous formation of bars at the mouth of 
the channel by the lake currents destroyed the practical benefits of 
the work, and in this year the course of the piers was deflected 
twenty-five and a half degrees to the south. Work continued inter- 
mittently until 1857, when the north pier extended into the lake 
2,800 feet, and the shore line at the mouth of the river had pushed 
itself out several hundred yards. The channel between the piers was 
then 200 feet wide, and had been dredged to a depth of eight to 
twelve feet. In 1854 it was determined to create an interior basin, 
and the river was widened for the purpose. In October of the same 
year a ship canal was dredged through the bar. The wharfing privi- 
leges, which had occasioned much dispute, were defined in 1833, and 
the wharfs were sold or leased in perpetuity, in consideration of a 



60 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

payment of their value and an annual rental of one barleycorn. It 
was specified in all cases that a substantial dock, three feet high and 
five feet wide, should be built and maintained in perpetuity. In 1857 
only six miles of dock had been built. At present there are twelve 
miles of slips and basins, and twenty-nine miles of river front mostly 
docked. 

The Illinois & Michigan Canal tapping the Chicago River at 
Bridgeport, four miles south of its mouth, extends to a junction with 
the Illinois River at LaSalle, ninety-six miles distant, whence, by the 
improvement of the latter river, access is had to the Mississippi. 

Wisconsin Central Line, composed of the Wisconsin Central R. B. 
and its controlled and leased roads, forms a grand through line from 
Chicago to St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn., and from Chicago to 
Ashland, Wis.; also from Milwaukee to the same points, there being no 
direct Chicago and Milwaukee connection. On completion of the Wis- 
consin & Minnesota R. R. from Schleisingerville to Chicago, the Wis- 
consin Central R. R. between Abbottsford and Neehan, and the Mil- 
waukee & Lake Winnebago R. R. became parts of the through line, 
which was opened July 26, 1886. The total length of line operated 
is 600.62 miles, as follows: Chicago to Schleisingerville, 122 miles; 
Wisconsin & Minnesota R. R., 55 miles; Minnesota, St. Croix & Wis- 
consin R. R., 98 miles; Stevens Point, Wis. to Menasha, Wis., 64.70 
miles; Portage City branch — Stevens Point to Portage City, 71.70 
miles; Ashland branch — Stevens Point to Ashland, 188.47 miles; Rib 
Lake branch — Chelsea, Wis., to Rib Lake, Wis., 5.60 miles, and the fol- 
lowing leased branches and spurs: Milwsukee and Lake Winnebago 
R. R., 87.30 miles; the Packawaukee & Montello R. R., 7.75 miles. 

It has joint track facilities with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 
Railway, at Milwaukee, and runs its own freight and passenger trains 
solid in and out of that city, connecting at Rngby Junction (27 . 5 miles) 
with the main line. The general offices of the road are in Milwaukee. 
The local ticket office, H. C. Fuller, agent-, is at 205 S. Clark Street, 
and the passenger and freight depots are on the corner of Polk Street 
and Fifth Averme. 



<®he ^Public ^Sutl&mgs. 

THE CITY, COUNTY AND UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BUILD- 
INGS AND THE POSTOFFICE. 

CHICAGO is very little, if at all, behind contemporary cities in the 
number, character, architecture, and general details of her public 
buildings, and in some of these particulars the public buildings sur- 
pass those of any other municipality in the country. 

The County Court House and City Hall may well stand for an 
example ; notwithstanding the fact that, through economy or lack of 
taste, the original design was changed by leaving off the domes and 
other upper structures that would have greatly added to the appear- 
ance of the building. It is a dual structure, occupying the square 
bounded by Clark, LaSalle, Washington and Randolph Streets, giving 
it a frontage of 340 feet on the east and west sides, and 280 feet on 
the north and south. It is located in the business center of the city, 
and is by far the most massive and elaborate public building in Chi- 
cago. The style of architecture is the modern French renaissance. 
"Above the sub-building is a colonnaded double story with Corin- 
thian columns thirty-five feet in height, which gives to the entire 
structure a lofty, yet solid and imposing appearance. These immense 
columns of polished Maine granite support an entablature at once 
mathematical and elegant in proportions, and divided into archi- 
trave, frieze and cornice. An attic story enriched by the sculptor's 
chisel with allegorical groups representing Agriculture, Commerce, 
Peace and Plenty, Mechanical Art and Science Art, surmounts the 
entablature and completes the grandeur of the noble outlines. The 
materials are principally upper Silurian limestone, from the quarries 
along the Desplaines River in this state. The columns, pilasters and 
pedestals are of Maine granite. The building is fire-proof through- 
out, and the total cost is nearly $6,000,000. The work of construc- 
tion was begun in 1877, and the court-house division, which fronts 
on Clark Street, was completed and occupied by the county officials 
in 1882. The apartments assigned to the County, Probate, Superior, 
and Circuit Courts are capacious and convenient, amply provided with 



62 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

private rooms for judges, jurors, offices of the court attaches, and 
huge fire and burglar-proof vaults for the preservation of judiciary 
records, while each suite is fitted up in a style plain but very rich, 
which is at once appropriate to the character of the edifice and com- 
mendable to good taste. The Sheriff, Coroner, and Kecorder of Deeds 
occupy the extensive basement, and the County Clerk, Board of Com- 
missioners, and Board of Education, together with a host of other 
officials, find conveniently arranged quarters within its spacious walls. 

The City Hall division, fronting on LaSalle Street, is similar in its 
architectural features to the county portion of the building, and was 
intended to be its complement, except for such variations in ornamen- 
tation as were required to avoid monotony and introduce a distinctive 
element into its appearance. The interior is finished in white oak. 
The police and fire departments and the City Electrician are located in 
the spacious basement story ; the water, building and special assess- 
ment departments, and the offices of the Mayor, Comptroller, and 
City Treasurer, in the first story ; the numerous offices of the depart- 
ment of public works occupy the second story ; and the law, health 
and educational departments, the city council and working committees 
and the numerous other offices of the city government, are all allotted 
ample and convenient quarters. A large portion of the interior of the 
upper stories is still unfinished. The settling of the foundations from 
the immense weight has caused the cracking of some stones in both 
the city and county buildings, but as yet has not injuriously affected 
either the durability or safety of the structures. 

This is the second joint structure built by the county and city for 
administrative use, and the third city hall erected by the municipal 
authorities. When Chicago became a chartered city the "Fathers" 
leased a hall in the old ' ' Saloon Building " (shown in illustration on, 
page 18), said to have been the finest public hall west of Buffalo at 
the time. It was located at the southeast corner of Lake and Clark 
Streets, and was a square three -story frame, having its first floor 
devoted to store purposes, the second to offices, and the third floor 
occupied by a public hall, in 1842 a building at the corner of LaSalle 
and Randolph Streets was secured and occupied until the first munici- 
pal structure erected in Chicago was completed. This was called the 
Market Building, and was situated in the center of State Street, front- 
ing forty feet on Randolph, and extended north toward Lake Street 180 
feet. It was a plain two -story stone and brick structure. The first 
story was divided into thirty-two stalls and leased for market purposes. 



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The upper story contained four rooms used for city purposes. It cost 
$11,000, and was first occupied Nov. 13, 1848. In June, 1851, the 
county and city decided to erect a joint building on the public square, 
and Sept. 11, 1851, the corner-stone was laid with appropriate cere- 
monies. As at first constructed, it had two stories and basement. The 
main part was 100 feet square, and had four narrow wings projecting 




The Second Court-House in Chicago— Burned by the Great Fire. 



from the sides. It was first occupied Feb. 7, 1853. A third story and 
two wings were afterward added. The grounds contained graveled 
walks, grass plats, trees, shrubbery, etc. The building was destroyed 
by the great fire in 1871. The east wing, however, was left in such a 
condition as to be again made habitable and, in part, served the wants 
of the city officials until the erection of the present edifice on the same 
site necessitated its demolition. The city administration then fell into 
its old itinerant habits, and drifted about until it found lodgings in the 
" old tank," or n rookery," as the make-shift for a city hall is familiarly 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 65 

styled, on the corner of LaSalle and Adams Streets. This homely- 
looking structure, which has a history of its own, was in its original 
state a huge iron water tank, or reservoir, belonging to the old water 
works service on the South Side, prior to the great fire. The munici- 
pal government seized upon it and made it the nucleus of a temporary 
abiding place. Surrounding it with a hastily erected squatty two-story 
brick building, and transforming the tank itself into safety vaults, it 
was dignified by the appellation of 4 ' City Hall." 

The Criminal Court and County Jail Buildings consist of three 
buildings grouped together. They occupy about two-thirds of the 
square between Michigan, Illinois and Clark Streets and Dearborn 
Avenue, an alley forming the west boundary line. The Criminal Court 
building has a frontage of 140 feet on Michigan Street, and sixty-five 
feet on Dearborn Avenue. It is constructed of limestone. The main 
entrance on Michigan Street is through a broad portico with massive 
fluted columns. A wide entrance from Dearborn Avenue, through a 
hallway, leads also to the center, or court, into which the main 
entrance opens, and from which stairways ascend to the court rooms 
above. The Criminal Court of Cook County occupies the entire upper 
portion of the building. The sessions of the court commence the first 
Monday in each month, and are presided over by the Judges of the 
Circuit and Superior Courts of Cook County in alternation. Adjoining 
on the north is a two story and basement building which fronts 
directly upon Dearborn Avenue, giving an "L" shape to the eastern 
exposure of the court building. This is occupied in part by the north 
town officials, the county utilizing the remainder. This building, 
which is of brick with stone trimmings, extends 137 feet on Dearborn 
Avenue to the corner of Illinois Street, on which it fronts forty-three 
feet. It is entered from both thoroughfares by plain iron balcony 
stairs rising from the sidewalk to the main floor. In the space or yard 
formed by the rear of these two structures with Illinois Street on the 
north and the alley on the east, the county jail is located— the frontage 
on Illinois Street being 141 feet. It is in no wise connected with the 
other buildings except by a narrow bridge, enclosed with heavy corru- 
gated sheet iron, which leads direct to the " criminal box" in the court 
room. It contains one hundred and thirty-six cells in the male wards, 
forty-eight in the female and fourteen in the juvenile wards. It is a 
plain, substantial structure of brick and iron, and is in marked contrast 
with the architecture of the court building. This group of buildings 
was erected in 1873 by the county at a cost of $375,000, 
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The United States Government Building (Postoffice and Custom 
House), completed in 1880 at a cost, including grounds and surround- 
ing street improvements, of $6,000,000, is one of the handsomest 
government edifices in the country. Its base dimensions are 342 by 
210 feet, which leaves spacious elevated lawns, surrounded by heavy 
coping. It occupies the square bounded by Dearborn, Clark, Adams 
and Jackson Streets, and is three stories in height, with base- 



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ment and attic. The style of architecture is known as the Eoman- 
esque, with Venetian treatment. It is almost entirely of iron and 
stone, and is fire-proof throughout. The basement and first floor are 
occupied exclusively by the Postoffice Department. In the basement, 
reached by an inclined driveway on the west side, extending from 
Adams Street through to Jackson, all mail matter is received 
and dispatched. The first floor is devoted to the general delivery, 
carriers, money order, registry and stamp divisions, and executive 
purposes. The interior of the building above the basement forms a 
court, 83 by 198 feet. This court is covered by an immense skylight 
at the second story, being an open court above. The second floor ia 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 



67 




COLLECTOR'S OFFICE— U. S. CUSTOMS. 



used by the Collector of Customs, Internal Kevenue Collector, Sub- 
Treasurer, Commissioner of Pensions and special mail agents. The 
third floor is occupied by the various United States Courts and offices 
connected with the Interior and Law De- 
partments. The interior of the building is 
exceedingly rich in finish. The floors are 
all in tiling of black and white marble. 
The grand staircases in the north and south 
halls are especially notable, being of solid 
iron, artistic in design, and painted to rep- 
resent wood, with steps laid in small parti- 
colored tiles. The building is furnished 
with four elevators and every improved 
convenience of the age, and is heated 
throughout by steam from engines in the 
basement, the temperature being regu- 
lated to 60° the year round. The approaches are from each of the four 
streets ; they are exceedingly spacious, and are made uniform with the 
broad sidewalk surrounding the square, which is covered to the curb 
with massive stone flagging. Each of the four streets forming the 
square were also paved to the center by the government. The promi- 
nence of the building is made more im- 
posing by the appearance of isolation given 
it by its surroundings, which throw it out 
in bold relief. Large as the building 
is, the postomce department is already 
crowded, such has been the growth of the 
business since it was occupied. Eight 
branch offices, located in different parts of 
the city, each with its corps of clerks and 
carriers, help to relieve the pressure ; but 
by far the largest portion of the work is 
done from the main office, among the large 
business houses situated within its imme- 
The total number of carriers employed is 
317 ; number of clerks, 480 ; total number of pieces delivered in 1883, 
78,754,271 ; total receipts for the year ending June 30, 1884, $1,- 
892,241. The amount of duties collected in the customs department in 
1883 was $4,075,166.85, on merchandise valued at $10,453,701. 
The internal revenue collections for the fiscal year ending June 30, 




U. S. Sub-Treasury Office. 



diate delivery district. 



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1883, were $9,118,191. On the lawn plat formed by Clark and 
Adams Streets, and facing their intersection, stands a monument seven 
feet in height, bearing this inscription : 



TO THE MEMORY 

OF 

George Buchanan Armstrong 

FOUNDER OF THE 

RAILWAY* MAIL SERVICE 

IN THE 

United States; 
born in armagh, ireland, 

OCTOBER 27, A. D. 1822. 

DIED IN CHICAGO 

MAY 5, A. D. 1871. 

Erected by the Clerks 

in the service 

1881 



A life size bust of Mr. Armstrong surmounts the pedestal of polished 
dark marble which rests on a base about three feet square. 

The Other Public Buildings, including hospitals, asylums, infirm- 
aries, police stations, engine houses, and school-houses, have been 
noted in appropriate chapters. 



^hc ©H]3 <S)ovem:menf. 

THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT, THE 
MAYORS, AND THE WATER SYSTEM. 



HP HE City Government is reasonably well organized in both its legis- 
J- lative and executive branches. Police, fire, health, law, finance, 
education and other objects of municipal attention, are allotted to 
proper control, and then almost everything else is thrown into a sort 
of omnium gatherum, entitled the Department of Public "Works. 

The Legislative Power is vested in the Mayor and Board of Alder- 
men, commonly called the City Council. The Mayor's term of office is 
two years. The board has thirty-six members — two from each of 
the eighteen wards, elected in alternate years for a term of two years 
each. The Mayor presides over the deliberations of the body, or, if he 
be absent, a member from the quorum present is called to the chair. 

The following is a complete list of the mayors and the dates of 
their election : 



William B. Ogden, . 


. May 


2, 1837 


Thomas Dyer, . 


. Mar. 


10, 1856 


Buckner S. Morris, 


Mar. 


6, 1838 


John Wentworth, 


Mar. 


3, 1857 


B. W. Kaymond, 


. Mar. 


5, 1 839 


John C. Haines, 


. Mar. 


2, 1858 


Alexander Lloyd, 


Mar. 


3, 1810 


John C. Haines, . 


Mar. 


1, 1859 


Francis C. Sherman, 


. Mar. 


5, 1841 


John Wentworth, . 


. Mar. 


6, 1860 


Benj. W. Raymond, . 


Mar. 


7, 1842 


Julian S. Rumsey, 


Apr. 


16, 1861 


Augustus Garrett, . 


. Mar. 


7, 1843 


Francis C. Sherman, 


. Apr. 


15, 1862 


A. S. Sherman, 


Mar. 


7, 1844 


Francis C. Sherman, . 


Apr. 


21, 1863 


Augustus Garrett, . 


. Mar. 


5, 1845 


John B. Rice, . 


. Apr. 


18, 1865 


John P. Chapin, . 


Mar. 


3, 184G 


John B. Rice, 


Apr. 


16, 1867 


James Curtiss, . 


. Mar. 


2, 1847 


Roswell B. Mason, . 


. Nov. 


2, 1869 


James H. Woodworth, 


Mar. 


7, 1848 


Joseph Medill, 


Nov. 


7, 1871 


James H. Woodworth, 


. Mar. 


6, 1849 


Harvey D. Colvin, . 


. Nov. 


4, 1873 


James Curtiss, 


Mar. 


5, 1850 


Monroe Heath, 


July 12, 1876 


Walter S. Gurnee, . 


. Mar. 


4, 1851 


Monroe Heath, . 


. Apr. 


3, 1877 


Walter S. Gurnee, 


Mar. 


2, 1852 


Carter H. Harrison, 


Apr. 


1, 1879 


Charles M. Gray, 


. Mar. 


14, 1853 


Carter H. Harrison, 


. Apr. 


5, 1881 


Isaac L. Milliken, 


Mar. 


13, 1854 


Carter H. Harrison, 


Apr. 


3, 1883 


Levi D. Boone, 

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70 MARQUIS 7 HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

years. In 1869 the time of holding the city election was changed 
from April to November, and the persons then in office were continued 
until the first Monday in December. The city was reorganized under 
the general incorporation act in April, 1875, and consequently no 
election was held in November of that year, but the persons in office 
held over until July, 1876. In that year the City Council provided 
for an election for city officers under the new incorporation, but 
omitted all reference to the office of mayor. Nevertheless, a popular 
vote was taken for mayor at the election, and Thomas Hoyne received 
33,064. The canvass of the returns being made, the Council disre- 
garded the vote for mayor, but the new Council canvassed the returns 
and declared Mr. Hoyne elected. Mr. Colvin, the incumbent, declined 
to yield possession, and the matter was taken to the courts, where the 
case was decided against both contestants. A special election was 
then ordered by Council and held July 12, 1876, resulting in the 
election of Mr. Heath to serve till after the next regular election. 

Measures can be passed over the mayor's veto only by an affirmative 
vote of two-thirds of the board. The regular meetings are held every 
Monday evening. The other city offices filled by general election are : 
Clerk, Treasurer, and City Attorney. The heads of all the other depart- 
ments, and the occupants of minor positions in the municipal service, 
are appointed by the mayor, with the approval of the council. 

The Law Department consists of a Corporation Counsel, City Attor- 
ney and Prosecuting Attorney. 

The Department of Finance is under the City Comptroller, City 
Treasurer, and City Collector. 

The Building Department is supervised by the Commissioner of 
Buildings, assisted by a secretary and six inspectors. The building 
laws require plans and specifications of all structures to be filed in this 
department, and a permit issued by it, before the work of erection shall 
begin. All fire escapes and elevators are also subject to inspection and 
control by this department. 

The Department of Public Works, the most ponderous bureau 
of the corporation government, is under the supervision of a commis- 
sioner, who is supported by a City Engineer. The heads of the sub-de- 
partments are Superintendent of Sewerage ; Superintendent of Streets, 
with a corps of street engineers; Superintendent of Maps, and Superin- 
tendent of Water Collections, each being provided with the number of 
assistants requisite to the proper direction of the host of minor employes. 
The labors of the department of public works are many and difficult. 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 



71 



The City's Water System affords notable evidence of the high 
order of ability and engineering skill engaged in it. The peculiar and 
stupenduous mechanism of the system by which Chicago obtains her 
abundant supply 
of water, was first 
conceived by El- 
lis S.Chesbrough, 
then city engi- 
neer, in 18 63, and 
under his person- 
al supervision the 
entire work of 
construction was 
executed, and the 
system pat in op- 
eration. His plan 
to obtain pure 
water through a 
tunnel extended 
two miles under 
the bed of the 
lake was then gen- 
erally regarded 
as a visionary 
scheme, that 
would entail end- 
less expense with- 
out benefiting 
the city. The 
contractors for 
constructing the 
great tunnel and 
crib were Messrs. 
Dull & Gowan, of 
Harrisburg, Pa., 

and the contract NoRTH Side Water Works Tower. 

price was $315,139. Work on the tunnel began March 17, 1864, and the 
last brick was laid Dec. 6, I860, rapid progress having been made from 
the lake end to a junction with the shore end from the time the - crib " 
was finished and placed in position. The crib, which was built on shore 




72 MARQUIS' BAND-BOOR OF CHICAGO. 

and launched like a sea-vessel, is sixty feet high and constructed in 
pentagonal form within a circumscribed circle of ninety-eight and one- 
half feet diameter. It has three walls — the outer, the center and the 
inner— Avhich are firmly braced and bolted together, forming one great 
structure. Each wall Avas calked and tarred like the hulk of a vessel, 
before the three were joined together. White-oak timbers twelve 
inches square were used for the upper twelve feet, and white pine of 
the same dimensions for the remaining forty-eight feet. These tim- 
bers are bolted together with square rods of iron. The bottom i,s com- 
posed of three layers of twelve-inch timbers bolted together in an 
equally firm manner. The crib contains fifteen water-tight compart- 
ments, the "well," through which a hollow iron shaft nine feet in 
diameter goes down thirty-one feet below the bottom of the lake, being 
in the center. It was towed to its proper position in the lake, and 
there sunk and weighted in its place with heavy stones. The tunnel, 
which is five feet in diameter and two miles long, is sixty-six feet below 
the surface level of the lake at the crib. It taps the shaft in the well 
at a point which gives the water a "head" of eighteen feet, with a 
velocity of four and two-tenths miles per hour, and will deliver 
57,000,000 gallons daily into the great well under the water- works 
building. From this well immense engines lift the water into the 
stand-pipe, or " water tower," 175 feet high, whence by its own weight 
it is distributed throughout the city. There are four engines at these 
works which have, combined, 3,000 horse-power. The largest one — of 
1,200 horse-power, with fly-wheel twenty-six feet in diameter — has a 
capacity for pumping 2,750 gallons of water at each stroke. It cost 
$200,000. These are the main works of the system, though generally 
termed "North Side Water Works," and are situated at the foot of 
Chicago Avenue. The first works erected were totally destroyed by 
the fire of 1871, but they were speedily replaced by the present 
enlarged constructions. A second and similar tunnel was constructed 
from the crib to the new pumping works established on the West Side 
at the corner of Ashland and Blue Island Avenues. This tunnel runs 
in a southwesterly direction under the city, passing twice under the 
bed of the river, and is six miles in length. The system, as a whole, is 
conceded to be one of the grandest triumphs of modern engineering, 
and is capable of furnishing the city with 104,000,000 gallons of water 
daily, through over 500 miles of main and distributing pipes. It sup- 
plies the fire department with an abundance of water through 4,144 
fire hydrants. It has been perfected at an expense of about $10,000,- 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 73 

000. The crib is in charge of a keeper, who, with his family, resides 
in a comfortable cottage erected on it. It is connected with the City- 
Hall by telephone, and is a notable stopping place for excursion boats 
in the summer season. The North Side Avorks are also a favorite resort 
for thousands, being at the north terminus of Pine Street where ter- 
minates, for the present, the Lake Shore drive which passes through 
the handsome grounds of the works. 

The Police Department is under the control of a General Superin- 
tendent, appointed by the Mayor and subject to removal at any time. 
The city is divided into five police precincts, which are subdivided 
into sixteen districts — the first precinct containing four districts and 
the remaining four precincts three districts each. General headquar- 
ters are at the central station, located in the City Hall. The detail for 
each precinct is under a captain, and each station is in charge of a lieu- 
tenant with one patrol sergeant and two desk sergeants or station 
keepers. The central detail, located at central station, is distinct from 
the precinct commands, and is under a captain with sub -officers of like 
rank as the district officers. The secretary is also the inspector of the 
department. Jan. 1, 1884, the total number of men constituting the 
police force, including officers, was 637. Of this number forty-seven 
are officers, fifty-three occupy subaltern positions, twenty-two are in 
the detective service, eighty-four in the signal service, forty-eight on 
special detail, seventy-one on permanent post duty and 307 are patrol- 
men — eighty on day duty and 227 on the night force. The remaining 
five are classed as disabled. The "central detail" was recently 
increased by forty picked men from the different precincts, and now 
numbers 100 experienced policemen. This branch is imperatively 
demanded in order to protect life and limb and regulate teams in the 
crowded thoroughfares of the city's business center. The men are on 
permanent post duty at street crossings, bridges, tunnels, markets, 
railroad depots and public buildings, a few being detailed to travel the 
commercial heart of the city and enforce the ordinances relative to 
street and sidewalk obstructions. They are distinguished from other 
branches of the department by the device on their helmets, consisting 
of a wreath encircling the initials " C. D ;" by the absence of club and 
belt, or even cane, and by their white-gloved hands and polite atten- 
tion to pedestrians — ladies especially. The uniform of the entire force 
is of dark navy blue cloth frock coat, buttoned from waist to collar, 
vest and pants of the same, black belt, and helmet (or hat) bearing the 
patrolman's number or designated rank of an officer. The ratio of the 



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entire force to the population is one policeman to each 1,050 inhabi- 
tants, or one night patrolman for each 3,000 and one day patrolman 
for each 9,000 of the whole population. The average area assigned to 
each night patrolman is eighty acres, and there is one day patrolman 
for every 240 acres ; the average number of buildings to be guarded 
by one night patrolman is 350 ; by each day patrolman, 1,050. This 
lack of numerical strength, however, is more than counterbalanced by 
the efficiency of the police telephone and signal system. This valua- 
ble acquisition is strictly a Chicago invention, having been suggested 
by A. J. Doyle, chief of the police department, and devised by the city 

electrician, Prof. John P. Barrett, and 
first introduced in the department 
in the fall of 1880. The results of 
? : y;^j-, ( — i the first experi- 
ment in the West 
Twelfth Street dis- 
trict were so satis- 
factory that the sys- 
tem was adopted, 
and is now in gen- 
eral use through- 
out the depart- 
ment. The various 
districts are all 
connected by an 
electric current 
with the general 
headquarters, and 
from 375 patrol or street boxes, placed at the most promi- 
nent street corners, there is a current going into the station of 
the district in which each box is located. These street boxes are 
octagon- shaped, with a gas-light on top, thus taking the places of ordi- 
nary iron street lamp -posts. The interior contains the electric alarm 
box, which in turn contains the chief principle of the system— the sig- 
nal box, and also the telephone. The signal box is provided with a 
dial, similar to that of a clock, with eleven spaces marked "fire," 
" murder," " thieves," etc. When the pointer is placed on a space and 
the signal current turned on, the station, through a companion device, 
is at once apprised of the nature of the case, and the "patrol wagon" 
responds fully prepared for the work on hand. The patrol wagon is a 




The Police Patrol. 



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police wagon and ambulance combined ; a hospital stretcher, hand- 
cuffs, lantern, blankets, medicine-chest, and coil of rope for use at fires, 
being constantly carried. Patrolmen are required to communicate with 
their station by means of the telephone in the box, at stated periods. 
The same description of signal box is placed in private residences, 
banks, business houses, hotels, etc., and connected with the nearest 
station on the same circuit as the street patrol box. The total valuation 
of the property belonging to the police department is $353,419.09. 
The total expenditures of the department during the year 1884 were 
$703,579.66. Police courts are established in each police precinct 
except the fourth, which was very recently created out of the third and 
the old fourth — now the fifth — precincts. The court rooms are located 
at the principal district station house in each precinct, and a session is 
held every morning. The four police magistrates are appointed by the 
Mayor of the city, subject to confirmation by the City Council. 

The Fire Department, as first organized in Chicago, was a "leather 
bucket corps." In the Historical Society's rooms can be seen the only 
one of the buckets now in existence. The owner's initials, " C. S." — 
Clement Stose — are still upon it. That beginning was in 1835. The 
present superbly appointed department is the growth of the paid 
service first organized in 1858. The Chief Engineer of the depart- 
ment then, is the efficient Fire Marshal now— Dennis J. Swenie— who 
for thirty-five years has been a competent member of the city's fire 
force. The "Long John," named after Hon. John Wentworth, was 
the first steamer placed in commission, and dates her entrance into 
the service Dec. 25, 1858. Marshal Swenie was superseded in com- 
mand in 1859, through the influence of the "old volunteer boys," who 
opposed the pay system. Twenty years after, in 1879, he was ap- 
pointed by the present Mayor to the position of Fire Marshal and 
Chief of Brigade. The brigade comprises seven battalions, and the 
uniform force consists of one Fire Marshal, one First Assistant Fire 
Marshal, one Assistant Fire Marshal and Secretary, seven Assistant 
Fire Marshals and Chiefs of Battalions, eighty-eight company officers 
and 282 men, a total of 380. The Fire Alarm Telegraph Corps, num- 
bering two officers and twelve men, together with two Clerks and one 
Veterinary Surgeon, gives, as the total working force of the depart- 
ment, 397 members. The apparatus is as follows : Thirty-three En- 
gine Companies, nine Hook and Ladder Companies (two of which 
operate a one-horse, two-wheeled, single tank chemical engine), and 
three Chemical Engine Companies. Each engine is attended by a 



76 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

hose cart. There are in the service twenty-five two-wheeled carts, 
each drawn by one horse, and fourteen four-wheeled carts, drawn by 
two horses each. A notable feature in the way of special apparatus is 
a portable standpipe and water tower, which can be raised to the 
height of sixty- five feet, to reach fires in the upper or remote parts of 
buildings. There are 189 horses in the department; the quantity of hose 
on hand amounts to 37,782 feet; and the total length of ladders is 2,115 
feet. The real estate is valued at $215,000, the thirty-eight buildings 
at $304,650, and the apparatus at $568,878, making the total valua- 
tion of all property in use by the depa.tment $1,088,528. The cost 
of maintenance in 1883 was $556,551. The Fire Alarm Telegraph, 
first introduced June 2, 1865, is now embraced in the city telegraph 
system, which comprises all lines, telegraph and telephone, in the 
police and fire service and the various other departments of the city 
government. John P. Barrett is Superintendent. 

The Health Department is under the Commissioner of Health. 
His chief aids are three Medical Inspectors, one in each division of 
the city ; a Kegistrar of Vital Statistics, Small-pox Hospital Physician, 
Chemist, Chief Tenement and Factory Inspector, Secretary and Clerk. 
The small-pox hospital work is lessened by house to house visits for 
the purpose of vaccinating those who have not undergone that precau- 
tionary treatment. The department also keeps a careful supervision 
over the arrangements for safety and health of inmates of domiciles as 
well as workshops. The law imposes a penalty for the erection of any 
building without the Health Commissioner's approval of its plans for 
ventilation, light, drainage and plumbing. The effect of this is a 
marked increase of attention to sanitary arrangements on the part of 
builders and owners of houses, and a low rate of mortality. The 
authority of the department has a wide range, however, and the 
results of its well directed labors in all branches of its jurisdiction 
are clearly shown by the general improvement in the sanitary condi- 
tion of the city. A great deal of valuable work is done by the 
inspector of meats and stockyards, whose condemnations represent an 
important contribution to the stock of public health ; as are also the 
operations of the sanitary police, the scavengers, and others working 
under the direction and control of this department. Oscar C. De 
Wolf, M. P/., has been Health Commissioner since 1879. 

The Educational Department has been duly noted in the chapter 
on the "Educational Institutions," 



THE NATIONAL, STATE AND INDEPENDENT MILITARY 
COMPANIES. 

CHICAGO had some warlike training in the days of her pioneers, and 
suffered at least one serious disaster, which is recorded in the 
account of the massacre of Fort Dearborn.* The occupation of the 
fort probably had some influence in nourishing the military spirit, as 
there are accounts of early militia organizations, and the city does not 
seem to have been without something of the kind from the time the 
population was sufficient to form even a Falstaffian company. Her vol- 
unteers took a fair part in the Mexican war, and bore their full share in 
the late war of the rebellion. Indeed, few centers of population played 
so conspicuous a role in that bloody drama. From the first call for 
volunteers her young men responded freely, and when the draft came 
she supplied a large quota. The county and city were united in the 
drafts, but much the largest portion was of course always drawn from 
the city. The aggregate drafts were for 24,069 men, and when the war 
ended 22,436 of these had been furnished, with one draft held in 
abeyance. In bounties, $2,571,272 had been paid out ; $90,809 had 
been distributed among the families of soldiers ; and the Board of 
Trade had distributed $220,000, and the Merchants' Association $75,- 
000 in the same way, besides sending out a battery of artillery each. 

The total actual cost to Chicago and Cook County was over $4,000,- 
000, and the share of the city and county in the total general expenses 
of the war is estimated at $58,000,000. Below the then southern 
limits of the city, on the lake shore, were situated the prisons of Camp 
Douglas, where so many thousands of Confederate prisoners were con- 
fined during the conflict. The ground on which the camp stood is now 
covered with fine residences, and is one of the most pleasant of the 
resident portions of the city. The great national sanitary fair was held 
in Chicago during the war, and an immense sum was accumulated for 
the use of the sick and wounded Federal soldiers. The military spirit 

* See first chap'er in this volume. 



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is not dead among the people, although the parsimonious course of the 
state toward military organizations is well calculated to starve it out. 

The Division of the Missouri, U. S. A., including the states lying 
west of the Mississippi Eiver and east of Utah, together with Illinois 
and Wisconsin, is under the command of Maj.-Gen. John M. Schofield, 
who took command on the first of November, 1883, upon the removal 
of Lieut. -Gen. Sheridan to Washington. The headquarters, which were 
for a long time located in the Honore Building, 204 Dearborn Street, 
were removed May 1, 1884, to the fourth floor of the new Pullman 
Building, corner of Adams Street and Michigan Avenue. There are no 
troops stationed here, excepting a few on detail as clerks to assist Gen. 
Schofield and the other officers. There is a recruiting office for infantry 
at No. 9 South Clark Street, with a few men under Capt. Chas. W. 

Miner, of the Twenty- second 
•Infantry, and one for cavalry 
under First Lieut. Gustavus C. 
Doane, Second Cavalry, at No. 
18 South Clark Street. The 
Department of the Missouri, 
which belongs to the Division 
of the Missouri, and of which 
the state of Illinois is a part, is 
under command of Brig. -Gen. 
Auger, with headquarters at 
Fort Leavenworth, Kan. 

The Illinois National Guard 
is composed of two brigades of 
infantry with cavalry and bat- 
tery attachments. The law for 
their organization and govern- 
ment went into effect in July, 
1877. The First Brigade has 
First Regiment (Infantry) Armory, 24 Jackson St. its headquarters in Chicago, 

under command of Brig.-Gen. Cha3. Fitz-Simons. His staff is com- 
posed of an ad jt. -general, a judge advocate, inspector general, quar- 
termaster general, commissary general, inspector of rifle practice, 
surgeon, and two aides-de-camp. The brigade is composed of the 
First Regiment of Infantry, Col. E. B. Knox ; the Second Begiment 
of Infantry, Col. H. A. Wheeler ; the Third Begiment of Infantry, Col. 
C. M. Brazee; the Fourth Begiment of Infantry, Col. Fred L. Ben- 




MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 79 

net; the First Kegiment of Cavalry, Lieut. -Col. Dominick Welter; 
Battery C, Mai. Wm. M. Wood ; Battery D, Maj. Edgar P. Tobey. The 
armory of the First Infantry is at No. 21 Jackson Street, where drills 
are held nightly by one or the other of the companies. The building 
is of stone, rather massive in appearance, but not large enough to 
properly accommodate the regiment in drill. It is occupied on a ten 
years' lease. The Second Infantry occupy rooms at No. 179 Randolph 
Street. The armory of Battery D is a building 140X200 feet in size, at 
the corner of Michigan Avenue and Monroe Street. It was built by Bat- 
tery T> with contributions from citizens, and is well suited for their 
purpose. The armory of the First Cavalry is of the same size as that 
of Battery D, and adjoining it on Michigan Avenue. The biigade head- 
quarters are also located in offices in this building. The State Guards 
hold a brigade encampment once a year. The brigade numbers about 
2,500men, about 1,500 of them located in Chicago. The state furnishes 
the guns and accoutrements, and allows each man $1 per day for four 
days' encampment, every year, and pays the armory rents. Further 
than this it does nothing, but the regiments and companies have held 
together in the hope that an appropriation would be secured, similar 
to those of New York and Pennsylvania. Th e local commands are largely 
composed of young men of excellent families. The Second Brigade, 
with headquarters at Springfield, consists of about the same number of 
men as the First Brigade, but has only one battery of artillery and no 
cavalry. 

The Chicago Light Infantry (colored) was organized in 1879, and 
has been partially uniformed and equipped by the state. It consists 
of about sixty-five men at present, with Alex Brown as captain. The 
commanding officer of the State Guard has so far refused to recognize 
the company as a part of the regularly organized State Guard, princi- 
pally on the ground of the disreputable character of its members. 

The Other Military Companies are wholly independent organiza- 
tions. Of these the 

Hibernian Riflesare the oldest and decidedly the st ongest in num- 
bers, consisting at present of seven companies, aggregating about 500 
men, all of Irish descent and members of the Ancient Order of Hiber- 
nians. The headquarters are at No. 192 East Washington Street. The 
organization partakes largely of a social nature. John Kinsella is Lieut . - 
Col. commanding. 

The Clan-Na-Gael Guards were first organized in 1875 ; afterward 
disbanded, and reorganized in 1882. They are now in a prosperous 



80 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

condition, own appropriate uniforms and guns, and have a balance in 
the treasury. Aside from its military character, the company looks to 
the social and benevolent interests of its sixty-eight members, who, 
like the Hibernian Bifies, are all Irishmen. Drills are held at 192 East 
Washington Street. The Captain is L. P. Buckley. 

The Lackey Zouaves were organized by G. W. Lackey, who was 
colonel of an Illinois regiment in the late war, and from whom the 
Zouaves took their name, in May, 1877. Soon after the company's 
organization it was ordered to the assistance of the First Begiment of 
the State Guard, in the July riots of that year. Failing in health, Col. 
Lackey was succeeded as captain of the company about two years ago 
by W. W. Hammell. The latter gave up the position some months ago 
and at this writing (Sept., 1884,) the company is without a commander, 
and is practically inactive, though it is intact, and financially prosper- 
ous. There are at present thirty-five men, uniformed and otherwise 
equipped. The headquarters at present are at the office of J. Daltort, 
181 M nroe Street. 



IZPavkz anb !3oulevavb&. 

THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PARKS AND SQUARES, THE BOULE- 
VARDS, AND DOUGLAS MONUMENT. 

THE parks and boulevards of Chicago supply the great need of her 
• teeming population for healthful recreation amid attractive sur- 
roundings, which all may enjoy with a feeling of common proprietor- 
ship. The smaller parks, although very beautiful and useful in their 
way, could not meet the wants of a city which had outgrown their 
capacity, and out of the demand for something larger and grander 
grew the magnificent system of parks and boulevards that to-day 
almost encircle the city. The initial steps toward this system, which 
was conceived on a scale of great magnitude, were taken some eighteen 
years ago, although no decisive measure was reached till some time 
later, when, through the efforts of public spirited citizens, the legisla- 
ture began to pass bills for the establishment, control and maintenance 
of the parks, and the people, entering into the spirit of the improve- 
ment, accepted the burden of expense. From that time the develop- 
ment of the system, although not yet complete, has been one of the 
most remarkable of the many wonderful growths of Chicago, and but 
for the interruption of the great fire it would be much farther advanced 
than it now is. The system comprises a chain of parks, including Lin- 
coln Park on the North Side, Humboldt, Garfield and Douglas Parks on 
the West Side, and Washington, Jackson and Gage Parks and Midway 
Plaisance on the South Side. The latter four and the northern portion of 
Lincoln Park lie outside of the p.esent city limits. The combined area 
of these parks is 1,879 acres, and they are connected by boulevards 
complete or contemplated. Most of the land taken for this system of 
parks was located on the open prairie, with only bits of stunted timber 
here and there, and without natural advantages that could be utilized 
in preparing the attractive features of the landscapes. The lakes were 
dug, the variations in the surface were laboriously made, and, in fact, 
all the artistic designs are of artificial construction, and were wrought 
out with much toil and painstaking. Nearly all of the varied vegeta- 
tion was procured by the transplanting of trees, plants and grasses from 
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82 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

other points, in many cases from other states, and it is only by constant 
labor under the direction of the highest skill that the* parks have grown 
from a dead level of a treeless soil into landscapes of infinite variety 
and surpassing beauty. The boulevards are of uniform construc- 
tion, paved with macadam, as a rule. Most of them are bordered 
with elms which have been taken from their native habitat and 
replanted here. The trees ranged from thirty to sixty feet in height at 
the time of their transplanting, and have since required infinite care to 
secure them against injurious effects from the change of soil and 
climate and prairie winds. They are generally set in grassy strips 
along the borders of the boulevards, between the outer edges of the 
sidewalks and the curbing, and when full grown will give the drives the 
appearance of broad country lanes. None of the parks, and but few 
boulevards are yet completed, although they are well advanced, and 
steadily progressing toward completion, but there are fountains and 
statuary, and many other features of ornamentation to be provided, 
and large unimproved portions of the parks to be brought under the 
hand of the landscape gardener. The boulevard park system consists 
of three divisions, corresponding to the divisions of the city in which 
they are located, each supported in whole or in part by a tax on its 
division, and managed by commissioners appointed by the state from 
among citizens of the highest standing in the community. 

Lincoln Park, the oldest of the boulevard parks, lies in the North 
Side, between the lake and North Clark Street, stretching along the 
lake shore from North Avenue on the south to Diversey Avenue on the 
north, a distance of about one and a half miles. Twenty years ago the 
old Chicago Cemetery occupied the southern portion of the land, but 
as it was encroached upon by the city the ground was condemned for 
park purposes, and the bodies removed, as noted in the chapter on 
" The Burial Places." On a wooded knoll west of the main drive stands 
a square stone vault or mausoleum, enclosed with an iron fence and 
having over its somber portal the single word : 











COUCH. 











Not far from this, and hidden amid shrubbery, is a family lot with 
broken gravestones and trampled mounds, the whole enclosed with 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 83 

heavy stone curbing. On a prostrate slab one reads this tender record 
of a young mother and her child : 



REBECCA, 

WIFE OF 

ELIJAH P EACOC K. 
DIED 

February 10, 1850, 

/£. 29 YEARS. 

ALSO, WILLIAM, 

Their Son, 
Died Feb. 19, 1850, /E. 8 Mos. 

SHE DIED IN BEAUTY, LIKE A ROSE 

BLOWN FROM ITS PARENT STEM; 

SHE DIED IN BEAUTY, LIKE A PEARL 
DROPPED FROM SOME DIADEM. 



These are about all that remain to indicate the former use of the 
ground. The park at first contained about sixty acres, but it has since 
been gradually extended until its. area has grown to 250 acres. Its 
connection with the boulevard system dates from 1869, when the leg- 
islature provided for its maintenance and improvement, and appointed 
its first Board of Commissioners. The park has eight miles of drives, 
nine miles of walks, seven bridges, two tunnels and twenty acres of 
lake surface. From the magnificent lake shore drive, which extends 
from Oak Street to the northernmost limit of the park, the panorama 
on either side is^one of unrivaled beauty. On the west is the park 
with its succession of landscapes, each different from the others, yet 
perfect in itself, and on the east is the lake flashing its ever-changing 
hues upon the vision, its rippled surface clotted with sails and steamers, 
and at night the red gleam of the lighthouses in the distance, and the 
lights of the vessels that move fitfully about, and the weird moonlight 
that, falling upon its dimpled face, is shivered into millions of radiant 
beams. There is a long artificial lake of some twelve acres in the 
southern half of the park, and a smaller one of eight acres in the 
northwest section . The zoological department contains an interesting 
collection of animals and birds. The list embraces sea-lions, prairie 
dogs, several yarieties of bears, antelopes, buffalos, deer, foxes, rac- 
coons, wolves, etc. A young buffalo was born recently and this is said 
to be the only known event of the kind while the mother was in cap- 
tivity. The floral department is a striking and attractive feature. 



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About 100,000 plants of different colors are displayed in beds artisti- 
cally shaped and arranged, and the conservatories contain a large array 
of the most beautiful and curious tropical plants and flowers. A strik- 
ing Indian group in bronze, life size and standing upon a massive 
granite pedestal, is the gift of Mr. Martin Kyerson. The Lincoln mon- 
ument, provided for by the munificent legacy of $50,000 left by the 
late Eli Bates, of this city, is in progress under the able hands of Mr. 




A Scene in Lincoln Park. 

St. Gaudiens. When completed, it will be given a central location. It 
is conceded by judges of art who have inspected the design, that this 
will be one of the finest works of the kind ever erected to the mem jry 
of the eminent Illinoisan. The refectory, semi- Swiss in design, is 
located near the boat landing on the north border of the larger lake, 
on the line of the main drives. The park has a system of water-works 
of its own, which supplies a large and handsome drinking fountain for 
horses in the northern part, another on the lake shore drive, and 
innumerable hydrants and springs at almost every turn. There are 
two artesian wells, one near the animal quarters and the other on the 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 85 

northwest side. The park is illuminated at night by fifty arc electric 
lights, placed upon high poles. The music stand is located east of the 
ridge drive, and the expense of occasional summer concerts is defrayed 
mainly by contributions of citizens of the North Side. The south lawn 
is used for base-ball, cricket, lawn tennis, archery and military and 
police drills and parades. Along the west line is a fine promenade of 
granolith sixteen feet wide and 3,000 feet in length. 

Humboldt Park is the most northern park in the city. It is situ- 
ated four miles northwest from the City Hall, between West North 
Avenue on the north and Augusta Street on the south, with North 
Kedzie Avenue on the west and North California Avenue on the east. 
It is reached from the city by the Milwaukee Avenue and West North 
Avenue horse-car line ; from the north by Humboldt Boulevard, and 
from the south by Central Boulevard. Lying out on the prairie, it is 
swept by the southwest winds which for so much of the year play 
over the city. It contains 200 acres and in many respects is one of 
the most charming parks in the city. It is densely covered in places 
with groups of trees, which show between them lawns and meadows 
in pleasing variety. The lakes are a special feature. They cover a 
large portion of the area, and afford excellent rowing. The boat land- 
ing is near the refreshment pavilion, and the band stand is conven- 
iently situated for rowing parties to enjoy the Sunday concerts that 
constitute one of the great attractions of the park during the summer. 
There are a conservatory, cascades, grottoes and drinking fountains for 
men and animals. An artesian well 1,155 feet in depth yields water 
of high medicinal qualities, similar in many respects to the mineral 
waters of Garfield and Douglas Parks. The following is the analysis 
of a wine gallon of the water : 

Chloride of Magnesium, 7.702 grains., Carbonate of Iron, . . . 0.065 grains 

Sulphate of Soda, . . 23.211 " Silicate of Soda, , . , 0.7G3 " 

Sulphate of Magnesia, . 4.132 " Alumina, ...... traces. 

Sulphate of Lime, . . 10.229 " Sulphuretted Hydrogen, faint traces. 

Carbonate of Lime, . . 12.131 " Organic Substances, . . none. 

Total, 58.233 grains. 

Free Carbonic Acid, . „ . . . 11.13 cubic inches. 
Temperature at the Well, . . . . 63.5 ° Fahrenheit. 

The lands for the park cost $241,157, without improvements. 

Garfield Park was formerly known as Central Park, but after the 
death of President Garfield, that name was changed to the present 
one as a tribute to the memory of the illustrious dead. It is the most 



86 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

western park of the great encircling system, and lies from four to five 
miles west from the City Hall, stretching between Colorado Avenue on 
the south and West Kinzie Street on the north. It is reached by the 
Madison Street, Lake Street and Randolph Street car lines, and by 
Washington Boulevard. It contains 185 acres of ground, which cost, 
unimproved, $450,596. The seventeen-acre lake in the central part 
of the grounds has two miniature islands. The refreshment pavilion 
has breezy balconies and piazzas affording fine views. The boat land- 
ing is 300 feet in length. Over 30,000 plants are propagated in the 
conservatory every year. There is a handsome drinking fountain for 
horses, which was presented by the Illinois Humane Society, the cost 
of its construction being contributed by Mrs. Mancel Talcott. The 
artesian well, sunk to a depth of 2,200 feet, is a center of attraction. 
Hundreds of visitors go daily to drink the water, and many carry it 
away in bottles and jugs for home consumption. It is saline and 
chalybeate, and possessed of valuable medicinal properties for cases 
of anemia, indigestion, diseases of the urinary organs, rheumatism 
and kindred complaints. The following is the analysis : 

Chloride of Magnesium, 8.352 grains. Sulphate of Soda,. . . 13.645 grains. 
Chloride of Sodium, . 87.491 " Silicate of Soda, . . . 0.508 

Bromide of Magnesium, 0301 " Alumina, ,,,... traces. 

Sulphate of Lime, . . 1.114 " Organic Substances. . . none. 

Carbonate of Lime, . . 14.802 " Sulphuretted Hydrogen, none. 

Carbonate of Iron, . . 0.712 " 

Total, 146.925 grains. 

Free Carbonic Acid, . . . . . 13.44 cubic inches. 

Temperature at the Well 71.4° Fahrenheit. 

Water flows from the well at the rate of 150 gallons per minute. A 
pretty sight is- a small cataract known as "miniature Niagara," falling 
from a basin on the top of the rocky grotto at the mouth of the well. 
There are wooden, stone and iron bridges, and different shaped lawns, 
with walks and drives, all of which are bordered with trees, beds of 
flowers, and all the other accessories of the landscape gardener's art. 
There are three miles of foot-paths and a driveway of about two miles. 
The southern portion of the park grounds, comprising sixty-seven 
acres, lying just south of Madison Street, is as yet unimproved, and 
has long been occupied as a driving park by the Central Driving Park 
Association. 

Douglas Park, four miles southwest of the City Hall, lies on the 
open prairie. It is slightly smaller than either of the other West 
Side parks of the system, containing only 180 acres. It is west of 




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88 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

California Avenue, between Twelfth Street on the north and Nine- 
teenth Street on the south. It is reached from the city by the Madison 
Street and Ogden Avenue horse-cars. Douglas Boulevard forms a 
connection Avith Garfield Park on the north. The park itself has 
numerous attractive features. The artesian well in an embowered 
grotto, feeds the lake, and is visited by many on account of the me- 
dicinal properties of its water, which is not, however, considered as 
valuable in that respect as the water from the well in Garfield Park. 
An analysis of the water shows that a wine gallon is composed as 
follows : 

Chloride of Magnesium, 3.236 grains. Carbonate of Iron, . . . 0.103 grains. 

Chloride of Sodium, . 2.320 " Silicate of Soda, . . . 0.731 

Sulphate of Soda, . . 28.321 " Alumina, traces. 

Sulphate of Lime, . . 6.422 " Sulphuretted Hydrogen, faint traces. 

Carbonate of Lime, . . 11.149 " Organic Substances, . . none. 



Total, 57.282 grains. 

Free Carbonic Acid, .... 10.22 cubic inches. 
Temperature at Well, 57.1 ° Fahrenheit. 

The conservatory and propagating houses are spacious; over 60,000 
plants are transplanted from them every year. Grassy lawns are used 
for base ball and croquet playing. From the balconies of the unique 
refectory is had a fine view of the lake, eleven acres in extent, and 
tie most striking vistas of the grounds. It is in Douglas Park that 
the Chinese congregate in the month of August to perform one of 
their religious ceremonies, which is celebrated by the flying of kites 
of the most curious shapes and patterns, many of them representing 
animals, which, perhaps, never existed save in the excited imagina- 
tions that pictured them. The original cost of the lands of Douglas 
Park was $241,157. 

South Parks is the name by which Washington and Jackson Parks, 
connected by Midway Plaisance, are collectively known. The total 
cost of the ground for these parks, including expenses of quieting 
title, and ground for connecting boulevard, was $3,208,000. 

Washington Park lies between six and seven miles south of the 
City Hall, and extends from Fifty-first to Sixtieth Streets, between 
Cottage Grove and Kankakee Avenues. It is more than a mile from 
the lake shore, contains 371 acres, arid is reached by the State Street 
and W 7 abash Avenue cable-cars, over Indiana and Cottage Grove Ave- 
nues, by Michigan Avenue, Drexel and Grand Boulevards, and by the 
phaetons and the dummy line from Oakwood Boulevard. The artesian 




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90 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

well is 1,643 feet deep, and the water is somewhat similar to that 
of Garfield and Douglas Parks. It supplies a large portion of the 
water required, some being drawn from Hyde Park. The conservatory 
is a very handsome structure, 40x120 feet, containing a splendid col- 
lection of tropical plants, and there are nin3 spacious propagating 
houses, and a cactus house. About 170,000 plants are set out annually. 
One of the attractions of this park is the " Meadow," which contains 
about 100 acres, and is belted by beautiful lines of timber. The 
"Mere "is a winding lake of thirteen acres. The Park Retreat is a 
wooden building three stories in height. It is of ornamental archi- 
tecture, and is used as a restaurant, and for the offices of the local 
management. The stable is one of the attractions. It is built of 
stone in the form of a Greek cross, is 325x200 feet in its greatest 
diameters, and will accommodate 100 horses. The portion allotted 
to the horses is said to be the most complete thing of the kind in the 
world. It is in the form of a circle, and the stalls are ranged in two 
concentric rings with an alley between. The phaetons used for the 
transportation of visitors to and through the parks are kept in this 
building. The cost of the unique structure was $40,000. The phaeton 
horses are all iron-gray, and are selected with a careful eye to their 
beauty of form and adaptability to the service. Both Grand and 
Drexel Boulevards are traversed by the phaetons, which make regular 
trips at short intervals to Oakwood Boulevard for passengers, and the 
number of persons carried during the season has reached 45,000, 
and is steadily increasing. A prominent feature near the entrance of 
Drexel Boulevard is a large drinking fountain for horses. Permits for 
base ball, croquet, archery, etc., are always granted on proper appli- 
cation. 

Jackson Park lies along the shore of Lake Michigan, between seven 
and eight miles from the City Hall. It contains 593 acres, of which 
84 are improved, and extends from Fifty-sixth to Sixty -seventh Streets, 
Stony Island Avenue forming the western boundary. It is reached by 
the dummy engine from Oakwood Boulevard, and by the phaetons 
from the same point, all of which connect with South Side horse-cars, 
and also by the Illinois Central trains. There are two broad covered 
dancing platforms in the unimproved portion for picnic parties. The 
system of interior lakes, covering 165 acres, is connected with Lake 
Michigan by an inlet north of the pier. The lakes are of sinuous out- 
line, with many small bays and inlets extending into the surrounding 
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92 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

feature of tlie park. The main entrance is at Fifty- seventh Street, 
where the visitor leaves the depot of the Illinois Central Railroad at 
South Park Station, and at once confronts the most charming scene, 
— spreading trees and beds of flowers in the summer, with a broad, open 
meadow beyond. From many points there are fine views of the park, 
and of Lake Michigan and its hundreds of amphibious craft. A break- 
water is in process of construction for the protection of the shore 
from erosion by the waves, and the beach is being laid with stone block 
pavement for the same purpose. The occasional summer concerts draw 
many visitors. Jackson is destined to be one of the finest and most 
attractive, as it is now the largest, of the boulevard parks. 

Midway Plaisance extends from Jackson Park to Washington Park, 
between Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Streets. It was intended to connect 
the two parks both by boulevard and basin, the latter uniting the lake 
systems of the parks, but it will be years before the costly design of 
the basin can be completed. It is one and one-tenth miles in length, 
and contains eighty acres. It is to be handsomely improved, and will 
be one of the pleasantest portions of the South Parks division. 

Gage Park, the smallest of this system, is a neat park of twenty 
acres situated about four miles west of Washington Park, at the junc- 
tion of Garfield and Western Avenue Boulevards. 

The Other Parks are under the management of the city govern- 
ment. They are distributed miscellaneously throughout the city. In 
the West Division are Union, Jefferson, Wicker, Vernon, Congress and 
Campbell Parks. Union Park is nearly two miles west of the City 
Hall, on the line of Washington Boulevard, on the east side of 
Ashland Avenue and the south side of West Lake Street. It contains 
fourteen and four-fifths acres. It has a small lake, mounds, a fountain 
and several cages of animals, the most conspicuous of which is a 
monstrous grizzly bear. The park is not in good repair, owing to 
neglect, but is still an interesting place of resort. A movement is 
extant to have its management transferred to the West Chicago Park 
Commissioners, when it is hoped that its pristine beauty will be 
restored. Jefferson Park is about one and a half miles south and west 
from the City Hall, occupying one large block of five and a half 
acres, "bounded by Adams, Throop, Monroe and Loomis Streets. It 
has a lake, a fountain and a grotto, and is a very charming little 
feature of the vicinity. Vernon Park lies nearly two miles southwest 
of the City Hall, stretching along the north side of West Polk 
Street, between Center Avenue and Loomis Street, and contains 



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nearly four acres. Wicker Park lies three miles northwest of the City 
Hall, and one block south of Milwaukee Avenue, within the angle 
formed by the junction of Park, North Kobey and Fowler Streets, and 
contains four acres attractively arranged. Congress and Campbell 
Parks contain seven-tenths and 
one-half acre, respectively. In the 
North Side, Washington Square, 
containing two and a quarter acres 
prettily laid out,lies betweenNorth 
Clark Street and Dearborn Ave- 
nue, and Washington and Lafay- 
ette Places. Union Square con- 
tains a half acre . It forms the north- 
west quarter of the block bounded 
by Goethe, Scott, Astor and Stone 
Streets. In the South Side is Lake 
Park, the largest of the city parks. 
It extends from Randolph to 
Twelfth Street, between Michigan 
Avenue and the strip of ground 
along the lake shore occupied by 
the Illinois Central Railroad. It 
contains forty- one acres, has some 
small trees and some walks and 
benches, but is not much frequent- 
ed except by idlers. Dearborn 
Park is simply an open half -square 
without cultivation, on the west 
line of Michigan Avenue, betwe3n 
Washington and Randolph Streets. 
Groveland and Woodlawn Parks 
are contiguous, lying between Cot- 
tage Grove Avenue and the lake, 

near Thirty - fifth Street, and each contains four and a half 
acres of ground. The former is a picturesque wood of ancient- 
looking elms, vine - covered and threaded with shady walks. 
Opposite these parks, on the west side of Cottage Grove Avenue, are 
the grounds of the Chicago University, which, together with those of 
the parks, were donated by that gifted citizen of Illinois, Senator 
Stephen A. Douglas, whose family mansion occupied the immediate 




Douglas Monument. 

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94 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

vicinity for many years prior to his death. The mausoleum contain- 
ing the remains of the Senator is located on a plat of ground border- 
ing upon Woodlawn Park, near the eastern terminus of Douglas Ave- 
nue, and overlooking Lake Michigan. Towering above the mausoleum 
to the height of 104 feet is a noble monument in memory of the dis- 
tinguished statesman, orator and citizen. Surmounting this is an 
admirable and very life-like bronze statue of Mr. Douglas, executed 
by the Chicago artist, Leonard Volk. The mausoleum and shaft are of 
granite. At the corners are four bronze female figures, seated on 
granite pedestals, each inscribed with the character respectively rep- 
resented, viz: "Illinois," "History," "Justice," "Eloquence." The 
marble sarcophagus in the crypt bears on its side the . following in- 
scription : 



STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, 

BORN 

APRIL 23, 1813, 

DIED 

JUNE 3, 1861. 

TELL MY CHILDREN TO OBEY THE LAWS AND 

UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION." 



The cost of this magnificent tribute of respect was about $100,000. 
Ellis Park is a pleasant little place of three and three -eighths acres, 
lying four miles south of the court-house, between Cottage Grove and 
Vincennes Avenues, at the Thirty-seventh Street crossing. Aldine 
Square, at Thirty-seventh Street and Vincennes Avenue, is an enclosed 
park of one and a half acres, handsomely arranged, and, like Grove- 
land and Woodlawn Parks, surrounded by elegant and costly mansions. 
All three, too, are maintained in the same manner, viz : by special tax 
levied for the purpose on abutting property. 

Michigan Avenue Boulevard commences at Jackson Street and 
extends south for about three and one-fourth miles to Thirty-fifth 
Street. It is 100 feet wide and is completed its entire length. It is a 
fashionable drive, one of the finest in the country, and runs through 
one of the richest residence sections of the South Side. 

Thirty-fifth Street Boulevard commences at the south end of Mich- 
igan Avenue Boulevard, and extends eastward about one-third of a 
mile, where it connects with Grand Boulevard. It is sixty-six feet 
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Grand Boulevard commences at its junction with the east end of 
Thirty-fifth Street Boulevard, and extends directly south for a distance 
of two miles, where it enters the northwest corner of Washington 
Park. It is 198 feet wide and has a broad central driveway which runs 
between wide grass strips bearing double rows of trees. Outside of 
these are roadways thirty-three feet wide, the one on the east being for 
traffic and that on the west for equestrians. Along the outer borders 
of the roadways are strips of grass bearing single rows of trees, and 
outside of these are the footways with a line of trees along the outer 



border of each. There are many handsome residences along the 
boulevard, and others in course of construction, and in favorable 
weather it is thronged with people of both sexes on horseback and in 
vehicles. 

Oakwood Boulevard commences at Grand Boulevard and Thirty- 
ninth Street, and extends eastward a half mile to the north end of 
Drexel Boulevard. It is 100 feet wide, and is completed its entire 
length. At its junction with Drexel Boulevard stands "The Cottage," 
a very handsome building erected by the South Park commissioners as 
a waiting-room for passengers desiring to take the phaetons or the 
dummy train for South Parks. 



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Drexel Boulevard is the gem of the boulevard system. It com- 
mences at the east end of Oakwood Boulevard and running south 
parallel with Grand Boulevard to Fifty- second Street, turns east for 
one block and enters Washington Park one square south of its northern 
boundary. It is 200 feet wide and 1.48 miles long, and has 3.05 
miles of completed driveways. There is a broad central strip through- 
out the entire length, planted with trees and shrubbery, and orna- 
mented with sinuous walks and grass plats and beds and borders of 
flowers, and foliage plants, in various designs, among which a mag- 
nificent flower-decked elevation knoAvn as " The Mound," shown in 

the illustration on page 89, attracts 
universal attention. There is also, 
near the park end, a wonderful tri- 
umph of the florist's art in the 
shape of an elephant, composed of 
growing cacti, and remarkably cor- 
rect in outline. At Fifty-first Street 
stands the splendid fountain dona- 
ted by the Messrs. Drexel, of Phila- 
delphia, in honor of whom the 
boulevard was named. Along either 
side of the central space is a broad 
driveway as level and smooth as a 
floor, and thronged on pleasant 
evenings with vehicles containing 
representatives of the wealth and 
fashion of the city, many of them 
occupants of the handsome villas 
along the boulevard, or owners of others that are being erected there. 
Drexel Boulevard was modeled after Avenue 1' Imperatrice, Paris, and 
with the highest order of taste in design, and of skill in execution, 
nothing has been omitted that could add to its attractiveness, and it is 
conceded that it surpasses its prototype. 

Garfield Boulevard is planned on a grand scale. Its design is similar 
to that of Grand Boulevard, having a broad central driveway with a 
row of trees and grass plats and shrubbery on either side, outside of 
which are roadways for traffic and for equestrian exercise, the whole 
plan being laid witlrn a lane of elms. It is 200 feet wide, and has a 
total length of three and one -half miles, and the ways thus far com- 
pleted aggregate three and three-fourths miles in length. It leaves 




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Washington Park at Fifty-fifth Street, and extends west along the line 
of that street to Gage Park, through which it connects with 

Western Avenue Boulevard, which is also planned on a similar 
scale and of kindred design Avith Grand Boulevard. It is 200 feet 
wide, and runs directly north from Gaga Park to the Illinois & Mich- 
igan Canal, a distance of nearly three miles, but only a little over three - 
fourths of a mile of roadway is completed. The plan contemplates its 
extension from its present terminus north to Thirty-first Street, west 
to California Avenue, north to Laughton Street, west to Sacramento 
Avenue, and north to Douglas Park, thus completing the connection 
between the South Side and West Side divisions of the system by a 
line of boulevards, which, when finished, will not have its equal in the 
world. Negotiations are in progress for the purchase of the ground for 
this extension. 

Douglas Boulevard, "L" shaped, 250 feet in width and one and 
three-fourths miles in length, connects Douglas and Garfield Parks, en- 
tering the former from the west and the latter from the south. Its plan 
is essentially the same as that of Central Boulevard. The driveway has 
been completed, but few shade trees have yet been set out, and floral 
ornamentation has not been introduced. Open prairie abounds along 
its entire length. The original cost of the land was $27,569. Im- 
provements are constantly being made, and Douglas promises to 
become one of the most fashionable and popular boulevards on the 
West Side. 

Central Boulevard constitutes the connecting link between Garfield 
and Humboldt Parks. It is a little over a mile and a half in length, 
and has an average width of 250 feet. The completed driveway, 
thirty-eight feet wide, is bordered on either side by a slender lawn, 
with a "bridle path" running along within its outer edge, and fringed 
with rows of elms. The viaduct arching the tracks of the Chicago, Mil- 
waukee & St. Paul Kailway, affords a good view of the surrounding 
country. 

Humboldt Boulevard is as yet little more than a country road. It 
has been par ially graded by owners of adjoining property, and a few 
trees have been set out, under the direction of the park commissioners. 
The boulevard proper is 250 feet in width, but it embraces in its plan 
Palmer Place, 400x1750 feet and Logan Square, some 400X800 feet. 
Its total length is about three miles. It connects Humboldt Park with 
a proposed boulevard from Chicago Kiver to Lincoln Park. The land 
was acquired at a cost of nearly $32,000, 
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98 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

Washington Boulevard was constructed upon that portion of Wash- 
ington Street extending from Halsted Street through Union Park to 
Garfield Park, a distance of about three and one -fourth miles. It is 
bordered for nearly its entire length with handsome residences, many 
of them having fine lawns and rows of shade trees in front. It is 100 
feet wide in its western extension, and is a fine, broad driveway in all 
is parts, although not of uniform width. It is to the West Side what 
Michigan Avenue Boulevard is to the South Side, being the most pop- 
ular drive in its section of the city. 

Lake Shore Drive, though not a boulevard in the strict sense of the 
term, is a part of the boulevard system. It extends from Oak Street, a 
little north of the North Side water works, to Lincoln Park, of which 
it really forms a part, and thence it continues along the lake shore to 
the northernmost park limits. It is three-fourths of a mile in length to 
its entrance into the park proper. Its total width is 200 feet, and the 
driveway, completed, 100 feet. It will be extended south from Oak 
Street to the river, as a boulevard, grants for that purpose having 
passed the Common Council and been accepted by the park commis- 
sioners. 



©harit^ and ^Bencpotence. 

THE HOSPITALS, ASYLUMS, HOMES, AND OTHER CHARITABLE, 
BENEVOLENT AND HUMANE ORGANIZATIONS. 

WITH all her pride of power and material wealth, Chicago does not 
neglect the claims of humanity, but cultivates the various lines of 
humane endeavor as ardently as if they were channels of trade, and 
endows them as liberally as if they were commercial institutions. This 
is demonstrated by her great public charities, and by the number of 
her organizations for special relief purposes. There is scarcely any 
form of human suffering or need, present or contingent, but finds its 
remedy in her hospitals, dispensaries, asylums, homes, or one of the 
many associations for the help of others or for mutual aid. 

The Chicago Relief and Aid Society was organized under special 
act of the legislature in February, 1857. The main object was to aid 
such of the poor as through sickness or other misfortune require tem- 
porary assistance. It was not the intent to extend aid to the perma- 
nently needy, nor to assist any until proven worthy. Able-bodied 
applicants are assisted in finding employment, and in other cases 
money and clothing are provided. Rules of the society provide that no 
loan shall be made from the funds ; that no person who receives aid 
shall ask alms of the public ; and those receiving aid shall be regarded 
as entitled to assistance until careful investigation shall prove to the 
contrary. The affairs of the society are managed by a board of direct- 
ors selected from prominent business men, and this board reports annu- 
ally to the City Council. It owns the Chicago Relief and Aid Society 
Building, in Avhich its offices are located. During the period of extreme 
suffering which followed the great fire of 1871, the society found its 
energies taxed to their utmost capacity, and its system of relief sub- 
jected to the severest possible test, but, although the scope of its 
operations was extended considerably beyond the original purpose of 
the organization, it passed the ordeal with remarkable success. The 
millions which flowed into the city in the shape of money and supplies, 
from all civilized portions of the globe, were mostly turned over to the 
society for distribution, and it thus had over one hundred thousand 



100 MARQUIS' BAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

homeless people to provide with shelter and food, and extensive needs 
in other directions to supply. An executive committee and sub-com- 
mittees were organized, and the great work was commenced and carried 
on systematically. The labor was incessant, but the service was marked 
with surprising celerity, considering the care necessary to insure a 
judicious execution of the trust. In less than three years the society 
disbursed nearly four and a half millions of dollars. Of this the shelter 
committee expended nearly one million in building and furnishing 
more than 9,000 houses ; $250,000 were paid out for sewing machines, 
and tools for mechanics and laborers ; $300,000 for fuel for families ; 
and more than $500,000 were distributed by the medical depart- 
ment and the committee on charitable institutions. May 1, 1874. 
there was left of about five millions received for the aid of the victims 
of the conflagration, something over a half million of dollars. This has 
been quietly and carefully disbursed, and when the final account 
was rendered Jan. 1, 1884, not a dollar of the vast sum commonly 
known as "the fire fund," was reported lost or misappropriated. The 
society then announced that, its stewardship of this fund having 
ended, it must thereafter confine its operations within the original 
scope of its organization. Charles G-. Truesdell, the superintendent, 
has for many years ably filled that difficult and responsible position. 

The Old People's Home was founded in 1861, as the " Old Ladies' 
Home," through the efforts of Miss Caroline Smith, who afterward 
bequeathed to it about $1,000 and two lots of ground. In 18(34 a 
house was purchased, but it afforded accommodations for only eleven 
inmates, and after the fire of 1871 it was totally inadequate to the 
legitimate demands upon its room. The Chicago Belief and Aid 
Society then came to its assistance with a donation of $50,000, stipu- 
lating that there should be no discrimination as to sex, race, nationality, 
or religious belief, and that the donors should have the right to name 
one inmate for every $2,500 given. The conditions were accepted, 
and the institution was accordingly reorganized in May, 1872, under 
its present title. A commodious three story building was erected on 
Indiana Avenue near Thirty-ninth Street, and was occupied, with nine- 
teen old ladies, Nov. 25, 1874. It has capacity for eighty inmates, and 
the average number in the Home is sixty-six. The value of this prop- 
erty is $70,000 ; of the property previously occupied, $5.000 ; there 
are endowments amounting to $34,857 ; and the institution is free 
from debt. Its annual expenses are something over $10,000, the bulk 
of which is met by contributions. All the inmates are old ladies, the 



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plan being to erect a duplicate building for the use of old men. 
Admission is restricted to persons of good character, who have been 
residents of Chicago for two years, are sixty years of age, in indigent 
circumstances, and have no children able to provide for them. In 
special cases persons fifty-five years of age are admitted by a vote of 
the board of managers. All admissions are on six months' probation, 
at the expiration of which permanent residence may be accorded or 
refused, and if granted is liable to be canceled at any time, for cause. 
An admission fee of $300 is required in each case, and inmates must 
furnish their own rooms. The board of managers consists of thirty 
ladies of high social standing, and there is a board of nine trustees 
composed of citizens prominent in charitable work. There are also a 
matron, and a physician and assistant physician. 

The Foundlings' Home is one of the most noted charities in Chi- 
cago. It had its birth in the ^ 



humane impulses of Dr. Geo. 
E. Shipman. On the 31st c>f 
January, 1871, the Home 
was opened at No. 54 South 
Green Street. Two months 
later a removal was effected to 
roomier quarters at Sangamon 
and Eandolph Streets, and in 
May, 1872, a donation of $10,- 
000 was accepted from the 
Chicago Relief and Aid Society, 
the Home was incorporated, 
and the present main building 

Commenced. It is on Wood Foundlings' Home. 

Street, just south of Madison, and cost, with the ground, about $50,000, 
the Relief Society adding $20,000 to its previous donation. It was occu- 
pied in May, 1874. It is built of light brick, is cruciform, with a front of 
40 feet and a depth of 60 feet, is three stories in height with attic and 
basement, and contains about forty rooms. In 1883 a new wing was 
built on adjacent grounds. It is of red brick, sixty-two by forty feet, 
five stories high, and connected with the main building by an annex. 
It contains nine dormitories, eight rooms for hospital purposes, the 
rooms of the superintendent and his family and of the lady assistants, 
etc. These buildings have a capacity for more than 100 inmates. Many 
of the babies are adopted into reputable Christian families, eighty-two 




102 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

being so placed last year. Of about 5,000 infants received since the 
Home was opened, 890 were adopted, 1,097 were returned on the 
application of their parents, and 2,992 died. Nursing mothers are also 
given shelter. The current expenses are about $6,000 per annum, the 
money for which, as well as for the grounds, buildings, etc., is all 
received by voluntary contribution. The founder, George E. Shipman, 
M. D., is secretary and superintendent. 

The Servite Sisters' Industrial Home for Girls was established by 
the Servite Sisters in a small way, in May, 1877. The location is 1396 
West Van Buren Street. The object is the care of homeless and desti- 
tute children from nine to eighteen years of age, who come of their 
OAvn accord or are brought by parents or sent by the courts. They are 
taught all kinds of work for which they have capacity, in the forenoon, 
and in the afternoon they are taught the common English branches. 
The building is a substantial brick of five stories and basement, with 
three wings two and three stories high. It cost, with the grounds, 
about $40,000, and belongs to the Sisters who occupy and manage 
it. The institution is supported by contributions of money and cloth- 
ing, by the sale of manufactured articles, and by interest on invested 
funds, each of the eighteen Sisters having $2,000 or upwards in United 
States bonds, the income from which is devoted to that purpose. The 
average number of non-paying inmates is about thirty-five. Some 
300 have passed through the Home, three having died. Sister Mary 
Erancis is Mother Superior. 

St. Joseph's Home for the Friendless and Industrial School for 
Girls, is located at 409 and 411 South May Street. It was founded and 
incorporated in 1878, as a place of refuge for respectable young girls 
who are temporarily out of employment. It is a Catholic institution, 
and is supported mainly by the laundry, the dress-making department, 
and the income from those who are able to pay their board. The 
building is the property of the association, is of brick, four stories in 
height, with a basement and capacity for the accommodation of 100, 
which is about the average number of inmates. The value of the prop- 
erty is $14,500 ; the annual expenses $11,000 ; and the number of 
inmates received per annum about 1,000. 

The Chicago Hospital for Women and Children, corner of Paulina 
and West Adams Streets, was founded in February, 1865, mainly 
through the efforts of Dr. Mary Harris Thompson. Its objects are to 
afford a home for women and children among the respectable poor in 
need of medical and surgical aid ; to treat the same classes at home by 



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an assistant physician ; to afford a free dispensary for the same, and to 
train competent nurses. The hospital passed through many vicissi- 
tudes, including the great fire, after which it located on its present 
site, purchased for it by the Chicago Belief and Aid Society at a cost of 
$25,000, and given on condition that twenty-five patients, named by 
the society, should be cared for free of charge. The grounds are spa- 
cious, measuring 150 by 80 feet, but the house, formerly a private 
residence, is only large enough to accommodate twenty-five patients 
and the necessary attendants. Some $30,000 have been raised and 
work commenced on a new building on the same lot, to accommodate 
eighty to one hundred patients. There is a free dispensary, and many 
thousands of patients have received treatment, in the hospital and at 
their homes. The institution is not endowed, but is supported 
through the unselfish efforts of the lady managers, aided by small sums 
received from paying patients and the proceeds of occasional entertain- 
ments. It is out of debt and has a balance in its treasury. It is con- 
ducted wholly by women. The "Board of Councilors," or managers, 
is composed of thirty prominent ladies ; the medical staff consists of 
experienced lady physicians, with Mary Harris Thompson, M. D., at the 
head, and there is a consulting staff of gentlemen well known as able 
practitioners. Mrs. J. C. Hilton is president. 

The Newsboys' and Bootblacks' Association was founded in 1868 
for the purpose of supplying a Home for such of the indigent boys of 
the streets as were disposed to earn their own living. The association 
was incorporated in December, 1874. The building is at 146 Quincy 
Str :et. The funds for its construction were raised by subscription. It 
is of brick, four stories in height, with a basement, and contains offices, 
dining-room, wash-rooms, rooms for officers, and dormitories with 
single beds for 100 boys. There are two schools, one in the daytime 
for the smaller boys, and one in the evening for the larger ones. A 
special feature of the institution is the Newsboys' Sunday school, at 
which the average attendance is 235. The property is held in the 
name of three trustees, and the Home is supported by small sums paid 
by the boys for food and lodging, and by contributions from various 
sources. The average number of boys in attendance is fifty, and the 
average annual cost of the maintenance of each boy is about $150. 
W. H. Eand is president. 

The Chicago Home for the Friendless-was founded for the purpose 
of extending assistance to wor-thy indigent women and children. The 
association was organized in March, 1858, and incorporated in Febru- 



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ary, 1859. It first occupied a frame building on West Eandolph Street, 
but in 1869 was removed to its present location at the corner of Wabash 
Avenue and Twentieth Street. Jonathan Burr donated one lot, and 
George Smith two, for the site of the building, and liberal contribu- 
tions enabled the association to erect the structure. In 1868 an addi- 
tion was built, Jonathan Burr contributing $5,000 toward the cost 
and subsequently $5,000 more to furnish it. In 1880. the Home 




Home for the Friendless. 

received the munificent bequest of $87,000 from the estate of H. H. 
Taylor, deceased, with a portion of which another addition was built, 
and is known as " The Taylor Memorial." The building and its addi- 
tions are quite extensive. They are of red brick, have four stories and 
an attic, and contain upwards of 100 rooms, including dormitories, 
work-rooms, school-rooms, kindergarten, play-room, nurseries, bath- 
rooms, lavatories, literary department, domestic department, infirmary, 
dispensary — in fact they are in every respect admirably arranged for 
the purpose they were intended to serve. A fire-escape communicates 
with every floor. The Home school, which has an industrial class, is 
supported mainly by the income of a bequest of the late Jonathan Burr, 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 105 

of which the Home is trustee. Particular attention is paid to instruc- 
tion in household work. Childien of proper age who have been sur- 
rendered to the Home, or are otherwise entirely at its disposal, are, on 
application, placed in Christian families where ample assurance is given 
that they will be kindly treated and properly reared. The management 
is under a numerous board of managers, composed of six ladies from 
the city and one or more ladies from the congregation of each of the 
city churches, except Catholic. A recent report shows that the num- 
ber of admissions for the year was 1,802, of Avhich 1,072 were adults, 
and 730 were children. The number of children surrendered to the 
Home was 173, and the number placed in permanent homes was 105. 
The expenses for the same year were $16,962.74, of which $13,102 
were paid from the proceeds of investments. A little paper, called the 
Home Visitor, is published in the interest of the institution. Much 
outside work is also done under the supervision of the Home patrons. 
Sick and needy are visited and assisted. Temperance movements are 
encouraged, etc., etc. Mrs. M. H. Moudy is matron and superintendent. 

The Burr Mission, which consists of an "Industrial School, Mission 
School and Free Chapel," was founded by the late Jonathan Burr, in 
1868, and was first located at the corner of Fourteenth Street and 
Third Avenue. In 1880 it was removed to the corner of Twenty-third 
Street and Wentworth Avenue, a new and commodious brick building 
having been erected for it, with large chapel and Sabbath-school 
accommodations, at a cost of $11,500. There is a spacious reading- 
room, stocked with magazines and newspapers, and the day school is in 
a very flourishing condition, the enrollment for 1883 showing fifty-one 
boys and sixty-three girls, with an average attendance of fifty. A kin- 
dergarten was successfully opened in the same year. The Chicago 
Home for the Friendless is the trustee for the Mission in perpetuity, 
and the latter is under the sole management of the officers of the Home. 
The objects of the Mission are the religious and secular education of the 
poor. 

The House of the Good Shepherd, under charge of the Sisters of 
the Good Shepherd, is an asylum for women and female children. The 
building stands in a large enclosure, on the corner of North Market 
and Hurlbut Streets. It is five stories in height, and well arranged 
and equipped for the work. The asylum was established in May, 1859. 
The first building was destroyed by fire, and the present building was 
erected at a cost of $70,000. In a niche in the front stands a stone 
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106 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

the lost sheep. The total value of the property is $200,000. The 
work of the institution is largely reformatory. There are five depart- 
ments, each kept apart from the others, viz : The penance reformatory 
for grown persons ; the juvenile reformatory for young persons ; the 
industrial school ; the Magdalen asylum, and Our Sisters' community. 
School and religious exercises are held daily in each department. 
There are accommodations for 400 inmates, and an average attend- 
ance of about 350. All are received, whatever their record ; some at 
their own request, and others sent by friends or the city. The institu- 
tion is self-supporting, apart from the trifle it gets from the city, and 
small amounts paid by boarders, earning its income with the laundry 
and the needle. Subscriptions are very rarely solicited. There are 
some fifty-five children between the ages of five and ten years, and 
about thirty old women who are unable to do any work. The annual 
expenses are $31,000. There are thirty-six Sisters engaged in the 
establishment, of whom Sister Angelique is Mother Superior, and 
Sister Mary, of the Nativity, assistant. 

The Orphan Asylum of the Guardian Angel was established in 
1867 by a German Catholic orphan society organized in 1865. In 
1872 the " Guardian Angel German Catholic Society" was incorpo- 
rated and took charge of the institution. The building was burned 
Oct. 23, 1879, and the present structure was erected on the site at a 
cost of $35,000. The grounds embrace forty-nine acres, and the 
property is valued at $50,000. The asylum has 130 inmates, and is 
managed by a sisterhood known as the "Poor Handmaids of Jesus 
Christ." A monthly publication, conducted by Mr. L. Biehl, is issued 
in behalf of the institution. Eev. J. Essing is president. 

The Michael Reese Hospital is maintained and managed by the 
Hebrew Belief Association. It is located on the corner of Twenty- 
ninth Street and Groveland Avenue, and is a very handsome and capa- 
cious structure, with four stories and basement. It was erected from a 
fund provided by the will of the late Michael Eeese. This fund 
amounted to $90,000, of which $40,000 were devoted to the build- 
ing, and the remainder invested as an endowment. There is no test 
of faith in admissions, and both male and female patients are received. 
Over 500 are admitted to the hospital annually. The first hospital of 
the Association was erected in 1866, at the corner of LaSalle and 
Chilli Streets. It was destroyed by fire in 1871, and until the present 
building was occupied in October, 1881, the association placed its 
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The Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary was founded in 
1858 by Dr. Edward L. Holmes, who has been professionally associ- 
ated with the institution ever since. It was incorporated in 1865, and 
up to the period of the fire was a private charity, aided by small 
annual appropriations from the state. Among the incorporators were 




The Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. 

some of the best known philanthropists of Chicago. It was first located 
on East Pearson Street, but after its destruction, the Chicago Belief 
and Aid Society gave the present site on the corner of West Adams 
and Peoria Streets, and the state appropriated the necessary funds for 
the erection and equipment of the institution, on the trustees convey- 
ing to it the entire property. It was opened to the public in 1874. 
The object is to provide gratuitous board and medical and surgical 
treatment for indigent residents of the state who are afflicted with 
diseases of the eye and ear. The building is a four-story brick, 104 X 
50 feet, with basement, and an L about 40X30 feet. The'chapel, 
stable., and wards for contagious diseases occupy detached positions.' 
The main building contains a complete domestic department, office, 
laboratory, clinical, operating, public and private rooms, wards for 
patients; etc. The institution will accommodate about 150 inmates at 
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108 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

provided for the gratuitous treatment of outside eye and ear patients, 
in which between 2,000 and 3,000 persons are treated annually. 
The daily average of the infirmary and dispensary combined is nearly 
150 patients, and the total number of treatments since the institution 
was established is about 100,000. The surgical and medical depart- 
ments of the infirmary are in charge of competent and experienced 
medical gentlemen. E. C. Lawton is superintendent. 

The Chicago Orphan Asylum, 2228 Michigan Avenue, is popularly 
known as the Protestant Orphan Asylum. It is under Protestant man- 
agement, but children are admitted without regard to creed. It is one 
of the oldest charitable institutions in the city, and was organized Nov. 
5, 1849, to relieve, protect, educate and provide means of support for 
orphaned and destitute children. The present location was occupied 
in 1853. The building was erected by subscriptions at a cost of about 
$20,000. and has 192 inmates. Kecent additions give accommoda- 
tions for 250 children. There is a day school divided into primary, 
secondary and and kindergarten departments. Children may be given 
out for adoption, or, after reaching the age of twelve years, maybe 
indentured to any respectable service. The institution is supported 
by contributions and by the rentals of eight handsome brick dwellings 
on the grounds, and by the income from invested funds and minor 
resources. Among the handsome donations and bequests it has re- 
ceived was $12,000 for the additions to the building above mentioned, 
from Mrs. Mary H. Talcott, and an endowment of $5,000 from the 
same liberal hand to provide shoes for the children. Also bequests 
from the late Jonathan Burr of $11,760; Flavel Mosely, $10,000; 
Col. J. L. James, $5,000 ; Allan C. Lewis, $4,000. William A. Brown 
and Thomas Church have each given $1,000, and the Chicago Belief 
and Aid Society donated $10,000. A board of eleven trustees, with 
an advisory board, manage the general business, while the internal 
management is directed by a board of forty ladies. A competent med- 
ical staff looks after the physical welfare of the children without 
charge. Mrs. Norman T. Gassette is president of the lady managers ; 
Mrs. Henry S. Fitch and Miss Sarah M. Horton, secretaries; Mrs. B. 
W. Kendall, treasurer. 

The Home for Incurables was incorporated May 26, 1880, and 
was opened for the reception of patients in January, 1881. The 
building, a two-story brick, was formerly a private residence. It 
stands on a lot of two acres at the corner of Kacine and Fullerton 
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ables. About thirty-five patients can be accommodated at a time. 
Tliose who are unable to pay are admitted free. Applicants must have 
resided in Cook County for at least twelve months. The Home is 
supported mainly by voluntary contributions. 

The Hospital of the Alexian Brothers, 569 North Market Street, 
represents the first establishment of the order in America. In 1866 
the Brothers occupied a small frame at Dearborn and Schiller Streets, 
and in 1869 moved into a larger frame they had built on the present 
site, which embraces ten lots, extending back to Franklin Street. 




The Hospital of the Alexian Brothers. 

After the fire of 1871 the spacious building now occupied Avas erected 
at a cost of $45,000. It has ample accommodations for 100 patients, 
and 115 to 120 have been cared for at one time. The average number 
of inmates is ninety, and over 1,000 are received annually. Only men 
are admitted, but there is a dispensary in connection which is open to 
the sick and needy of both sexes. There is no discrimination as to 
creed or nationality. Many patients are sent in by the city, but the 
expenses, which amount to about $18,000 per annum, are met wholly 
by subscriptions solicited by two of the Brothers. The entire prop- 
erty, valued at about $75,000, belongs to the Alexian Brothers. Bro, 
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Uhlich Evangelical Orphan Asylum (German) had its inception 
about fifteen years ago, having been established in 1869 through the 
efforts of the Eev. Joseph Hartman, the present president. The asylum 
was first located on North Clark Street, but was swept away by the fire 
of 1871. Soon afterward the buildings now occupied, at the corner of 
Burling and Center Streets, were erected, the Chicago Relief and Aid 
Society contributing $20,000 for the purpose. There are two build- 
ings. The asylum proper is a three story structure with base dimen- 
sions of 50X75 feet. A one story building, 25x50 feet, is used for 
dining-room and other purposes. The spacious grounds, consisting of 
eleven lots, constitute play-grounds for the children. About sixty 
German orphans, of both sexes, at present find homes at the institu- 
tion, this being the average number of inmates. The asylum property 
is valued at $46,000, and the annual expenses are $6,000. The well- 
known philanthropist, Carl Gottfried Uhlich, who had been its most 
liberal supporter, made a valuable donation of forty-eight city lots 
to the asylum, the revenues from which aid materially in its mainten- 
ance. Christian Mauermann is the superintendent. 

The Woman's Hospital of Chicago, 118 Thirty-fifth Street, was 
founded in 1870 as the " Woman's Hospital of the State of Illinois," by 
Dr. Reeves Jackson, who was its surgeon-in-chief for about ten years. 
The property occupied is leased, but a fund is being raised for the erec- 
tion of a building at the corner of Ehodes Avenue and Thirty-second 
Street, where a large lot has been purchased, and another adjoining is 
in negotiation. The institution is specially devoted to the treatment 
of the diseases and accidents peculiar to women, irrespective of creed, 
color, or condition in life ; the clinical instruction of students in medi- 
cine, and the practical training of nurses. Patients are treated in the 
hospital and outside, and the expenses, amounting to about $9,000 per 
annum, are met by paying patients' fees and donations. It has accom- 
modations for about thirty-five patients, with an average of thirty, and 
an annual aggregate of 208 inmates. The Board of Trustees and Board 
of Managers are both composed of ladies of social prominence, and 
there is an able medical staff of seven visiting members. Miss E. Lunt 
is matron. 

The Maurice Porter Memorial Hospital, at the corner of Belden Ave- 
nue and North Halsted Street, was founded in 1882 by Mrs. Julia Porter, 
in memory of her dead son. Its object is the care of sick and injured 
children, for whom it has accommodations to the number of ten. The 
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The Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poor was founded 
in 1876, with the view of providing a home for destitute men and 
women over sixty years of age and of good moral character. It was 
incorporated in 1881. No distinction is made as to creed or national- 
ity. The building, which was erected in 1880, occupies a large lot at 
the corner of Throop and Harrison Streets. It is four stories in height, 
has well- furnished accommodations for 140 persons, and averages 
about 125 inmates. The male and female departments are separate. 
The Home is supported by contributions, and the property is nearly 
paid for. Sister Mary, of St. Helena, is Mother Superior. 

St. Joseph's Hospital, established by the Sisters of Charity in 1869, 
is located at 360 Garfield Avenue. The building, which was erected in 
1872, is a four story brick, with accommodations for eighty patients 
and an average attendance of about 
sixty. No applicant is barred on 
account of sex or creed, the hospital 
being arranged in male and female 
departments. Patients who are able 
are expected to pay for admission 
and treatment; otherwise they are 
received free. Patients are some- 
times sent by the city, but the 
institution is supported by the pay St. Joseph's hospital. 

patients, from contributions and from occasional fairs. The medical 
staff is composed of eminent physicians and surgeons. Sister Mary 
Cephas is in charge. 

St. Luke's Free Hospital, one of the noted institutions of the city, 
originated with a few benevolent ladies, during the civil war, in an 
effort to care for the sick prisoners and soldiers at Camp Douglas. In 
1864 it was started as a free hospital for the sick poor, and has reached 
its present eminence and prosperity after many trials and removals. 
It is under Episcopalian control and management, but no distinction is 
made in admission on account of sect, sex, or nationality. In May, 
1871, a location was purchased at 1434 Indiana Avenue. A year later 
the Chicago Relief and Aid Society donated a considerable sum and a 
tract of ground on State Street near Thirty-seventh. In 1881 Mr. 
N. K. Fairbank gave 100 feet on Indiana Avenue adjoining the hos- 
pital grounds on the north, which was extended back to seventy feet 
frontage on Michigan Avenue by subsequent purchases from contribu- 
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112 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

front was at once commenced. It consists of four handsome buildings, 
costing $130,000, on the ground donated by Mr. Fairbank, all con- 
nected by corridors, and a fifth to be hereafter erected on the old hos- 
pital site adjoining. These are to be followed by a building on the 
Michigan Avenue front, which will be allotted to the administrative 
department of the institution, and constitute the main entrance. In 
addition to the wards in the new building, the plan provides for a 
chapel, amphitheaters for clinics and autopsies, and all the accessories of 
the best modern hospitals. Large subscriptions have been made to the 
building fund by many well-known citizens, the largest amounts being 
$25,000 from Tolman Wheeler, and $25,000 from the W. B. Ogden 
estate. Six of the beds are permanently endowed with interest-bearing 
investments of $3,000 and upwards each, and eighteen are supported 
by annual contributions of $300 each from various sources. Annually 
on St. Luke's Day a collection is taken up for the hospital in all the 
Episcopal churches of the city. The management have $32,381.77 at 
interest, and the property is valued at over $185,000. A recent annual 
report places the receipts at $17,094.75 ; expenditures, $15,413.49; 
patients admitted, 403 ; discharged, 300 ; deaths, 35 ; births, 33 ; 
and 1,372 patients were treated the same year in St. Luke's Free Dis- 
pensary, Avhich was opened in the hospital building in 1871, and is 
under the same management. The medical staff of the hospital and 
dispensary is composed of men of high standing in the profession, who 
give their services gratuitously. Eev. Clinton Locke, D. D,, is presi- 
dent and superintendent. 

The Lakeside Summer Sanitarium, at the foot of Twenty-fifth Street, 
was founded in 1883 by the president, Mrs. B. Shoeneman. It provides 
nursing and care for infant children of the poor, during the hot days 
of summer, while teething, and suffering with diseases peculiar to 
their age and the season. Proper food and baths are given, also ex- 
perienced medical attention, and clothing when necessary. Nearly 
1,000 children were cared for during the summer of 1884. The 
institution is supported by voluntary contributions. Mrs. N. K. Stone 
is secretary and treasurer. 

The Floating Hospital Association has been in operation since 
1876, the purpose of its work being to furnish lake excursions for 
fresh air to sick children and other invalids among the poor. During 
about nine weeks in the hottest portion of the summer, a steamer is 
chartered to make three excursions daily, except Saturdays and Sun- 
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The pier is covered and provided with a large number of hammocks 
for the use of the children. As many as 600 are taken out a'; one trip. 
The cost of this charity is about $1,200 per annum, which is raised by 
subscription. Competent medical attendance is provided. No one 
afflicted with contagious diseases is allowed to go on board the vessel. 
Dr. C. L. Eutter, 182 N. State Street, is secretary. 

Mercy Hospital, corner of Calumet Avenue and Twenty-sixth 
Street, was founded about 1848-49 by the Sisters of Mercy, and was 
incorporated in 1852 as "Mercy Hospital and Mercy Orphan Asylum." 




Mercy Hospital, Calumet Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street. 

A building at the present location was first occupied in 18G3. In 
1864 the orphanage was transferred to the Sisters of St. Joseph, and the 
institution was confined to hospital work. In 1869 a capacious wing 
was constructed and equipped, and the sisters moved the hospital into it, 
and established the House of Providence in the main building. The ob- 
jects are, first, to take care of the sick poor, and then of as many who are 
able to pay as can be accommodated. The building is a three story brick, 
with basement, and is provided with an amphitheater, sick wards for 
males and females, private rooms for paying patients, and the usual do- 
mestic and sanitary conveniences. It has comfortable capacity for 180 
patients, and an average of 175 inmates. It is managed by thirty-four 
Sisters, at an annual expense of $26,000, which is met by voluntary con- 
tributions and the sums received from pay patients. The entire prop- 
erty is valued at $260,000, but is encumbered with a mortgage debto 
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114 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

Cook County Hospital occupies an entire block, embracing twelve 
acres, bounded by Wood, Harrison, Lincoln and Polk Streets. It 
was founded in 1865 as an independent hospital, and was then located 
at the corner of Arnold and Eighteenth Streets. Later it fell into the 
hands of the county authorities, and has since steadily grown to its pres- 
ent magnificent proportions. The buildings are all of red brick, trim- 
med with stone, built in the pavilion style, with courts between, and 
well-lighted corridors connecting the four main structures. The latter 
are four stories in height, with attics and basements, and are provided 
on every floor with accommodations for thirty to forty patients, besides 
smaller rooms for private patients, or cases that demand isolation. 
There are a kitchen, dining-room, bath-rooms, closets, etc., on each 
floor, and rooms are conveniently located for the resident attaches. 
An air-shaft rises through the center of each building, from the sub- 
basement to the roof, connecting with air-chambers between the 
floors, and a coil of steam pipe in each shaft heats the air as desired to 
create a draft. By this means the atmosphere of the rooms is con- 
stantly changed. The rooms and wards are. warmed by indirect heat 
from a regulator in each apartment. These arrangements give com- 
plete ventilation, and command a perfectly even temperature at all 
seasons. In the center of the group of buildings is the amphitheater 
for surgical operations and clinics, with a seating capacity for 600, for 
the use of students of the medical colleges of the city. A smaller 
amphitheater is provided for autopsies held by the professors for the 
instruction of students, and in the basement beneath it is the public 
morgue of Chicago. A large kitchen, bakery, dining-rooms, and 
dormitory for the help employed in the hospital, occupy special quar- 
ters near the store-room and laundry. There are also storage for ice, 
barns for horses, provender, vehicles, etc., on the ground. One of the 
most striking features is the new building, surmounted by a tower, 
erected on the Harrison Street front. It constitutes the main entrance 
to the institution, and is five stories high, the two upper stories being 
allotted to private patients, and the remainder occupied by the admin- 
istrative department, with admission, reception and examining rooms, 
laboratory, drug and dispensing rooms, lavatory, offices, committee and 
family rooms. Altogether, there are comforta le and convenient 
accommodations for over 500 patients. The stairways are all broad 
and of gradual ascent, and elevators afford easy access to the upper 
floors. A recent annual report gives the daily average of patients as 
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each, 64 cents. Receipts from private patients were $1,886.50; from 
sale of clinic tickets, $1,540. The total number of patients treated 
was 5,194, of whom 508 died, 2,252 were discharged recovered, and 
thpre were 121 births. The current expenses were $104,795. 
The finishing and furnishing of the hospital throughout are of a supe- 
rior order, and in its elegant and strikingly diversified style of archi- 
tecture, and the perfection of its sanitary arrangements and appli- 
ances, it is unsurpassed by any institution of the kind in the country 
— perhaps in the world. W. J. McG-arigel is warden ; Miss M. E. 
Hempel, matron of the Training School for nurses, is head nurse. 
The resident staff of physicians and surgeons is supplemented by the 
faculties of the medical colleges. 

The Washingtonian Home had its origin in a movement instituted 
by the Good Templar lodges in Cook County. In 1863 they secured 
from their grand lodge a donation of their fees and dues for the suc- 
ceeding year, as the nucleus 
of a fund for the establish- 
ment of a reformatory for in- 
ebriates. In the following 
January the Washingtonian 
Home Association was organ- 
ized and incorporated. A 
building at 547 State Street 
was occupied for about a year, 
when the property at 566 to 
572 West Madison Street, 
known as the Union Park 
Hotel, and previous to that 
noted as the Bull's Head 
Tavern, was purchased for 
$10,000. In 1867 a special 
charter was obtained from the legislature, giving the Home ten per 
cent of the revenues of the city from licenses for the sale of intox- 
icating liquors. To the income derived from this source was added a 
bequest of $19,000 from Jonathan Burr, and by January, 1875, the 
directors found their treasury in a condition to justify the erection 
of the present spacious building on the site then occupied by the 
Home. This building is an imposing structure of four stories, with 
mansard and basement, and has a front of 106 feet on Madison 
Street. It was erected at a cost of $56,489, and the furnishing cost 




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over $6,000. It contains sleeping rooms for 111 persons, convales- 
cent and amusement rooms, padded rooms for patients with deli- 
rium, chapel, hospital and well arranged laundry and culinary depart- 
ments. Free patients are received in certain cases, but the majority 
are expected to pay a small charge for board and attendance. The 
number of admissions in 1883 was 927, and the total number since 
the Home was opened is 6,120. There is a board of thirty directors 
and a staff of six physicians. Daniel Wilkins, A. M., is superintendent. 

The Martha Washington Home is a supplementary institution to 
the Washingtonian Home, established by the association for the ref- 
ormation of inebriate women. It is under the same control and is 
similarly organized and managed. It occupies the handsome build- 
ings and grounds of the old military school on Graceland Avenue, 
which were purchased and refitted for the purpose at a cost of $15,- 
829.24, and was formally opened in July, 1882. A total of 146 
inmates had been received at the beginning of 1884. Miss M. M. 
Gray is the matron. 

St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, Nos. 3 and 5 Douglas Place, was 
founded in 1864, and after many removals was finally established in 
its present permanent and beautiful home. The building is a five- 
story brick, with basement and two wings, one of three stories and the 
other of four. It has accommodations for 250 children, and an aver- 
age attendance of 220. Its object is the care of destitute children, 
and their proper education. Boys are taken from four to eight years 
of age, and transferred to the Christian Brothers at Feehanville, where 
they are provided for. Girls are received during the same age, and 
are kept until homes are secured for them, or may remain in the insti- 
tution if they prefer. The asylum is maintained by a monthly allow- 
ance from the ecclesiastical government. It is managed by the Sisters 
of St. Joseph. The property is valued at about $60,000, and the 
annual expenditures are about $9,000. The average number of in- 
mates annually is about 600. 

Saint Vincent's Infant Asylum of Chicago, formerly known as 
Saint Vincent's Foundling Asylum and Lying-in-Hospital, is located at 
191 LaSalle Avenue, and was established in July, 1882. It has room 
for about fifty children, and admits children, including foundlings, 
under the age of six years. Some of these are boarded at the asylum 
by their parents, and others are brought in by the police and chari- 
table persons. The institution is supported by donations and what is 
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cared for in 1883 was 370, and the expenditures amounted to $6, -554. 
At six years of age the children are given to persons who adopt them, 
or otherwise placed where their future will be properly cared for. 
Sister M. Julia is the Mother Superior. 

The Chicago Nursery and Half-Orphan Asylum is located in a 
three story brick building at 855 North Halsted Street. It contains 
school-rooms, play-rooms, nurseries, hospitals, bath-rooms, dormito- 
ries, etc. The asylum was opened in 1860 for the care of children of 
poor women, while the mothers are seeking or actually engaged in 




The Chicago Nursery and Half-Orphan Asylum. 

employment. The plan was afterward extended so as to include the 
care and maintenance of children deprived of either parent. A small 
house was secured, and parents were permitted to bring their children 
in the morning and take them away at night, paying five cents per day 
for each child. The charge is now gauged by the wages earned by the 
parents. The present building was erected in 1870. There is a day 
school with an average attendance of eighty-six, and vocal music is 
made a specialty. The average family is about 140. There is a board 
of trustees, and a board of managers consisting of thirty-eight ladies. 
Mrs. C. M. Blanchard is matron. 



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The German Society extends a helping hand to German immi- 
grants, principally in aiding them to secure employment, and provid- 
ing temporary support. It also aids poor German residents, especially 
widows and orphans and the sick. Employment was obtained for over 
5,000 persons during 1883 ; assistance and advice were given to 
nearly 4,000 others. The society was organized in May, 1854, and 
was first known as the "Deutche Gesellschaft von Chicago." It expe- 
rienced two or three changes in name, and was finally reincorporated 
under the present title Dec. 5, 1883. The new charter was procured 
to enable the society to hold land which had previously been donated 
and was held in trust for its use. Its income is derived from invested 
funds of $12,000, dues from members, and from contributions. The 
German Ladies' Society was instituted by this organization, and works 
in co-operation with it. , The management of the German Society is 
vested in a board of fifteen directors. The office of the society is at 
49 LaSalle Street. William A. Hettrich is President ; Max Eberhardt, 
9 South Canal Street, Secretary ; Conrad L. Niehoff, Treasurer. 

The German Ladies' Society was organized in 1878 as the Ladies' 
Club of the German Society, but has since become measurably an in- 
dependent organization, with its own officers, directors and committees, 
all composed of German ladies. It continues to co-operate in the 
work of the German Society, but its main object is to erect a home for 
old, helpless and needy Germans, toward which end it is accumulating 
a fund from contributions, the proceeds of festivals, picnics and other 
entertainments. The office is at 49 LaSalle Street. 

The Erring Woman's Refuge was organized in 1863 for the relief, 
protection, care, and reformation of such erring women as may volun- 
tarily place themselves under its care, or may be so placed by any law- 
ful authority. Work was started in a little cottage in the North Divis- 
ion, and then a somewhat larger building was obtained on the South 
Side. In 1865 the managers purchased a building on the corner of 
Indiana Avenue and Thirty-first Street, where the institution is now 
located. The present building was erected and occupied in the winter 
of 1876. It will accommodate about forty persons, besides officials 
and attendants. The value of the property of the society is about 
$40,000, and there is an endowment by bequest of the late Jonathan 
Burr amounting to $21,261. The annual receipts and expenditures 
each aggregate about $8,000. The sum of $2,234 was received in 
1883 from the work of inmates; $721 from city fines, and $4,359 
from rents and interest. The total number of Avomen received into 



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the Kefuge for that year was 119, and the average cared for during the 
year was fifty-three and one -half. About 1,100 women, mostly under 
twenty years of age, have been under the care of the institution, 
which provides for the inmates for two years, and secures suitable 
means of support for the worthy on leaving. Its affairs are directed 
by a board of thirty-nine lady managers. Mrs. Helen Mercy Woods is 
superintendent. 

The United States Marine Hospital, on the lake shore, six miles 
north of the city, succeeded a smaller marine hospital which stood 
near the Kush Street bridge for nearly twenty years. The area of the 




United States Marine Hospital. 



grounds is about ten acres and the building is a handsome four- story 
granite structure, 300x75 feet, with a basement, having accommodations 
for 150 patients, the average number cared for being about sixty-four. 
It is the largest hospital of the kind in the country, and cost complete, 
$450,000, being provided with every modern improvement in arrange- 
ment and equipment. It has a dispensary from which over 3,000 pa- 
tients are treated annually, the large majority being outside applicants 
for medical aid. The maintenance of the hospital is provided for by 
a tax on the tonnage of all vessels. All American seamen are entitled 
to admission free of charge, and foreigners upon the payment of a small 
sum. T. W. Miller, M. D., is surgeon in charge. Applicants can be exam- 
ined at the city office, Room 20, Post-office building, Chicago. 



120 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

The Presbyterian Hospital affords medical and surgical aid and nurs- 
ing to sick and disabled persons, of every creed and nationality. The 
building adjoins Kush Medical College on AVood Street, and forms two 
wings of the hospital as it will be when fully completed. It is four and 
a half stories in height, and of red pressed brick with stone trimmings. 
Internally it is provided with every modern convenience for serving 
the needs and comfort of the sick. Over $45,000 (wholly contributions) 
were expended in erecting and furnishing the building. At present all 
inmates are required to pay for board and treatment, but free beds 
for the worthy indigent will be added as soon as practical. Kooms are 
also provided for private patients. The hospital was opened Aug. 20, 
1884, and a total of twenty-seven patients had been admitted Oct. 1. 
of the same year. The total capacity of the portion of the hospital 
already completed is eighty beds. The nursing is under the direction 
of a graduate of the Illinois Training School for Nurses, and a board of 
twenty-eight managers direct the affairs of the institution. Dr. E. P. 
Davis is the resident physician. 

Cook County Insane Asylum is located on the county poor farm. 
The insane were formerly sent to the Infirmary, but in 1870 the pres- 
ent structure was erected near the Infirmary, for that class of patients, 
and in 1873 it was enlarged. It now has accommodations for 400 
inmates, but an average of about 600 is crowded into it and a new 
building is now being erected. Of the inmates only seventy-two are 
native born. Over fifty-three per cent are females. Forty-eight per 
cent of the insanity is due to inherited and fifty-two to acquired 
defects. Henry Varnell is warden, and James G. Kernan, M. D., med- 
ical superintendent. 

The Chicago Eye and Ear Infirmary, 2813 Groveland Park Avenue, 
was incorporated in 1882. It furnishes gratuitous advice and medi- 
cine to the poor, afflicted with diseases of the eye and ear, and alsa 
cares for those who are able to pay for this class of treatment ; and 
gives clinical instruction to students in those branches of practice. It 
is sustained partly by fees from patients who are able to pay, and by 
voluntary contributions, but mainly by the manager, Dr. C. H. Yilas. 

Hahnemann Hospital, 2813 Groveland Park Avenue, is the clinical 
annex to Hahnemann Medical College. After the fire of 1871 it 
received $15,000 from the Chicago Belief and Aid Society, and wa? 
opened to the public in a separate and suitable building. The amphl 
theater was burned Oct. 21, 1883, and a new and commodious struct 
ure is in course of construction on the opposite side of the avenue. 



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Cook County Infirmary is located twelve miles from the city on the 
comity poor farm, a tract of 160 acres of fine y-cultivated land in Nor- 
wood Park Township, on which is also the Cook County Insane Asylum. 
There are nine buildings arranged in a semi-circular group, and con- 
nected by corridors. The building allotted to the administrative 
department is 48 by 52 feet ; and there are four dormitories each 32 
by 120 feet, besides hospitals and dining-rooms. These structures are 
of brick, in the Gothic style of architecture, with interior finish of 
natural oak. They were completed in 1882, at a cost, including fur- 
niture, of $183,000, and have capacity for 1,000 patients. The 
average number of inmates is 700, and the total number admitted 
annually is about 1,700. The institution is reached from the Madison 
Street depot of the C. M. & St. P. R. R. J. C. L. Frey is warden, and 
Dr. G. A. Hoffman, physician in charge. 

Bennett Hospital is a four-story brick building in the rear of Ben- 
nett Medical College. Each floor is divided into four wards, and there 
are accommodations for fifty patients, twenty being the average num- 
ber of inmates. The hospital is owned and managed by the college. 

The- American Humane Association is an organization of consid- 
erable importance at this great center of the live stock trade. It is 
national in character, and was organized in October, 1877. It is inti- 
mately associated with various local and state humane societies 
throughout the country, and aims to secure humane treatment to 
live stock while in transit. Its work has so far been almost entirely 
directed toward securing improvement in transporting cattle on rail- 
road trains, and it has succeeded in causing improved cattle cars to be 
placed upon many of the railroads, so that cattle are now fed and 
watered while en route, and consequently make the journey with less 
suffering than was formerly the case. The society meets annually at 
such time and place as may be designated by the body in session. 
Edwin Lee Brown, Clinton Street, corner Jackson, is president. 

The Relief Works were organized and incorporated in 1883, under 
the auspices of the Society for Ethical Culture. The purpose is to 
furnish trained nurses to act in connection with the free dispensaries, 
and visit the sick who apply to the dispensaries for medicine. These 
nurses made during the first year a total of 1,773 visits. A Ladies' 
Auxiliary Union was also organized for the purpose of providing cloth- 
ing for distribution by the nurses, and a large quantity was thus dis- 
tributed during the year. W. M. Salter, No. 83 Madison Street, Hershey 
Music Hall, is president. 



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The United States Life Saving Station, shown in the illustration on 
the opposite page, is located on a strip of land at the mouth of the 
Chicago River, known as Illinois Central Eailroad Pier No. 1. It i* 
accessible by the viaduct at the foot of Randolph Street. It was estab- 
lished in 1875 simply as a life-boat station, by a volunteer crew whose 
support was derived from an allowance, by the government, of $10 for 
each life saved. The volunteer service was supplanted in 1878 by a 
paid crew, under the maintenance of the general government. A new 
station was built and all the modern appliances for saving lives have 
been introduced. The crew consists of a keeper and eight men. One 
man is kept on watch day and night, and during foggy or stormy 
weather two men patrol the beach for four miles in either direction 
from the station. The station is kept open during nine months of the 
year, beginning with the first day of April and continuing till the last 
day of December. 

The American Association of the Red Cross was founded upon 
the "Geneva Treaty" of 1864, and has for its object the relief of suf- 
ferers from war, pestilence, famine and other national calamities. It 
operates, with its auxiliaries, under the provisions of the Geneva treaty, 
which has been signed by all the great nations of the earth, President 
Arthur signing for the United States in 1882. The association has 
accomplished an untold amount of good in the judicious distribution 
of the vast sums of money and supplies which have been voluntarily 
contributed for its disposal in the hours of great national or "provi- 
dential" calamities. The Central organization, Clara Barton, presi- 
dent, at Washington City, is under the immediate control of the high- 
est government officials, the President of the United States being 
president of the Board of Consultation. The Chicago Branch was 
organized in 1882, and has its headquarters at Room 1, Central Music 
Hall Building. It did a noble work in sending supplies to the recent 
Ohio and Mississippi River flood sufferers. Rev. E. I. Galvin is super- 
intendent. Mrs. Mary Weeks Burnett, M. D., is secretary. 

The Prisoners' Aid Association of Illinois is an outgrowth of the 
Prisoners' Aid Association of Chicago. Its efforts are mainly devoted 
to the improvement of prison influences and the reformation and 
assistance of discharged prisoners. A recent report shows that 448 
persons were furnished with employment, or otherwise aided, during 
the year. The Chicago association, which was incorporated Feb. 21? 
1882, was changed to a state organization in March, 1884. There are 
now about 150 members. J. W. Plummer, 52 East Lake Street, secretary. 



124 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

The Western Seamen's Friend Society was organized Nov. 10, 
1830, to promote the spiritual and temporal welfare of seamen and 
boatmen and their families on the western lakes and rivers. It is the 
oldest charitable organization in the city, and is the parent society of 
the chain of local organizations which constitute the Bethel Mission 
system of the west, still maintaining an active interest and participa- 
tion in their work. The supply of missionary service and the estab- 
lishment of Bethel homes and schools at suitable points is encouraged 
and assisted ; current moral and religious literature is circulated ; the 
Scriptures are distributed ; shops and prisons visited and appropriate 
books and papers placed in the hands of inmates ; a gospel ship is 
maintained to organize Sunday schools and hold religious services in 
isolated neighborhoods on the islands and along the shores of the 
lakes ; and all other efficient and available agencies employed in pro- 
moting the mission of the society. Its affairs are under the manage- 
ment of a board of directors. B. Frankland, 32 North Desplaines 
Street, is general superintendent. 

The Chicago Bethel, at the northwest corner of Kandolph and Des- 
plaines Streets, embraces the "Mariner's House" of the Western Sea- 
men's Friend Society, the Bethel department for transient meals and 
lodgings, and the Bethel mission and school. The Mariners House is 
for the better class of seafaring men and others who desire a quiet 
home. The Bethel department furnishes meals and lodging to tran- 
sients at nominal prices, or free to the really needy on proper recom- 
mendation, and fully 18,000 men are received in this department 
annually. The Bethel school has an enrollment of about 300, and an 
average attendance of 175. The nightly gospel meetings are well 
attended. The relief department distributes 1,600 articles in an 
average year. The annual expenditures in the Chicago district amount 
to over $6,000, part of which is met by contributions and part by 
receipts from the business of the Home. The Bethel is under a heavy 
debt, which it is gradually reducing. 

The Illinois Humane Society, organized in 1870 for the prevention 
of cruelty to children and animals, is one of the most important 
agencies in the city for the relief and prevention of suffering. It pays 
special attention to educating children in the law of kindness, seeking 
thus to rear a humane generation. This work is prosecuted in the 
public schools, and 1,065 "Bands of Mercy "have been organized, 
with 67,120 members. A recent report of the outside work shows 
that 2,632 cases were investigated during the year, and 1,467 children 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 125 

looked after and relieved, 251 being placed in charitable institutions. 
There were 753 cases of cruelty to animals, 432 teamsters repri- 
manded, 251 prosecutions, resulting in fines aggregating $3,512, and 
273 horses laid up from work, 187 abandoned horses killed, and ninety- 
six removed by ambulance. Eight inebriates were sent to the Washing- 
tonian Home. The society is supported by contributions from the 
public. The directors include some of the leading citizens of Chicago. 
John G. Shortall is president; Henry "W. Clarke is secretary; 0. L. 
Dudley is chief of special agents. Office, 113 Adams Street. 

The Woman's Christian Association aims to promote the general 
welfare of women, especially such as are dependent on their own ex- 
ertions for support. It was incorporated in April, 1877, and is located 
at 1516 Wabash Avenue. The board of managers consists of 100 
ladies from the various churches. It is supported in part from its own 
earnings, and in part by membership fees and private subscriptions. 
It affords a boarding-house for young women, and has an employment 
bureau for women seeking situations, or others desiring female help. 
About a thousand young girls have been sheltered under its roof. The 
building provides ample accommodations for fifty inmates. A free dis- 
pensary for women and children at 182 Dearborn Street is also con- 
ducted by the association. The library has some 450 volumes and 
600 periodicals. Flowers, reading matter, childrens' toys, etc., are 
distributed in the county hospital weekly, and papers and tracts 
among the inmates of the jail. 

The House of Providence adjoins Mercy Hospital, on the corner of 
Calumet Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street. It affords a home for dis- 
tressed women of good character, and young girls out of employment. 
It is sustained by those of the inmates who are able to pay from two to 
three and a half dollars a week for their board. No one having a good 
character is refused admission. The building is of brick, with three 
stories and basement, and has capacity for fifty to sixty persons. The 
property belongs to the Sisters of Mercy, and is managed by two from 
that order. 

The Charity Organization Society was organized in November, 
1883, to help the able-bodied poor to be self-sustaining, reclaim the 
pauperized poor, stop street-begging and prevent imposition and fraud. 
It has established the Provident wood-yard at 395 North Clark Street, 
where the hungry may always earn a meal, if able to work. The 
main office is at Koom 14, 129 Dearborn Street, and branch offices are 
located at 430 North Clark Street and 2207 Michigan Avenue. 



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The United Hebrew Relief Association of Chicago was established 
in 1859, to assist the needy of the Hebrew faith, to make them self- 
sustaining, "to see that no children grow up to be paupers, and to pro- 
vide hospital facilities for the sick and disabled. The association is 
the result of the amalgamation of several Hebrew relief societies which 
existed prior to 1859. It manages and supports the Michael Keese 
Hospital. Over 5,000 persons receive assistance annually. A list of 
regular beneficiaries is kept, and aid extended monthly as needed. 
Kesidents and strangers are alike assisted, shoes and clothiDg distrib- 
uted, and transportation furnished where advisable. About $10,000 
are annually disbursed in this work. The office is located at No. 200 
LaSalle Street - . Isaac Greensfelder is president. 

The Deaconess Institute and Hospital of the Swedish Evangelical 
Lutheran Church was organized in 1882 as a charitable institution. 
In May, 1884, hospital work was taken up with the view of forming 
the nucleus of an establishment to meet the needs of the denomina- 
tion in the northwest. It occupies a small building at 151 Lincoln 
Avenue, with beds for fifteen persons, and is maintained by the St. 
Augustine Synod of the Northwest. C. B. L. Boman is secretary. 

The Central Free Dispensary occupies the whole of the first floor of 
Bush Medical College, corner of Harrison and Wood Streets. The 
rooms are elegantly fitted up and provided with every convenience for 
treatment of patients and for clinical instruction, which is here given 
to the students of the college. The Dispensary has been in active 
operation at its present location since the fall of 1876. It is the result 
of the union of two dispensaries— the "Brainard" and the "Herrick." 
It is sustained by the interest of a fund donated by the Chicago Belief 
and Aid Society shortly after the great fire, by a small annuity from 
Cook County, and by voluntary contributions. It also receives the 
income from a fund of which the trustees of the college are custodians, 
and which was bequeathed by a wealthy and kind-hearted Scotchman, 
John Phillips, deceased, for the purpose of establishing and maintain- 
ing a free dispensary in West Chicago. About twenty thousand patients 
receive treatment yearly. The dispensary is open every day except 
Sunday. A staff of attending and visiting physicians is provided. 

The. South Side Free Dispensary is one of the oldest institutions of 
the kind in Chicago. It has been in existence about a quarter of a 
century. It was for a time a part of Mercy Hospital, under the name of 
the Davis Free Dispensary, but is now located at the corner of Twenty- 
sixth Street and Pm.ivio A^o-n^e. One of its features is a provision for 



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visit 'ng those who are unable to come to the dispensary. For this 
purpose the South Side is divided into twelve districts, each of which 
is assigned to a graduated physician who gives his services free. Over 
8,500 prescriptions are rilled annually, and about 3,000 visits made to 
patients at their homes. 

The Central Homoeopathic Free Dispensary was organized in 1876, 
by the ladies, wives and friends of the faculty of the Homoeopathic 
Medical College, and is located in the college building on the corner of 
Wood and York Streets. It is virtually a part of the college. It fur- 
nishes medicines and surgical assistance free to the poor, and attends 
to obstetric cases gratis. It is sustained by subscriptions and the pro- 
ceeds of entertainments. The noted '• butterfly ball" netted $5,000. 
It has an average of about one hundred applicants a day for relief. 

Hahnemann Hospital Dispensary was organized in May, 1859. Its 
several departments, medical and surgical, are in the charge of the fac- 
ulty of Hahnemann Medical College. Its location is in the hospital 
building, 2813 Groveland Avenue, and it is open every day except 
Sundays. It averages 30,000 gratuitous prescriptions annually. It is 
supported by voluntary contributions and from the treasury of the 
hospital. 

The West Side Free Dispensary was established and incorporated 
Sept. 9, 1881, as a clinical annex of the College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons, and for the gratuitous treatment of the deserving poor. The 
dispensary is located on the first floor of the college, corner of West 
Harrison and Honore Streets, and was opened to the public in Novem- 
ber, 1882, since which time about 7,000 treatments have been given, 
and over 10,000 prescriptions filled. 

The Bennett Free Dispensary is at Bennett Medical College, 511 
State Street, and is under the management of the officers of the college. 
It is open from 1: 30 to 3 p. m. daily, except Sundays. 

The Police and Firemen's Relief Fund is under the control of a 
board of trustees consisting of the mayor, the chief of police, the chief 
of the fire department, the chairman of the committee on police, city 
comptroller, the city treasurer, and the committee on fire and water of 
the City Council. The fund is provided under a special act of the state 
legislature, from certain specific taxes, fines, etc., and from the two 
dollars' initiation fee and an annual assessment of $3 from each mem- 
ber of the police and fire departments. The fund is for the relief of 
all disabled members of the two departments named". 

The Chicago Exchange for Women's Work, popularly known as the 



128 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

" Women's Exchange," was organized March 1, 1879. It is benevolent 
in intent, its object being to provide a depot for the reception and sale 
of any marketable article a woman can make in her own home, or any 
valuable article her necessities oblige her to dispose of, thereby assist- 
ing needy women to turn to personal profit whatever useful talent they 
may possess. The "Exchange" is conveniently located at 219 Wabash 
Avenue. In addition to the sales department, there is a restaurant sup- 
plied with home-made and home-cooked food. There is also a school 
under the charge of Mrs. J. S. Robinson, devoted to instruction in 
embroidery and various kinds of needle-work. There were 11,839 
articles, of a total value of over $12,000, sold at the exchange during 
the year 1883. Any person subscribing $5, may become a member of 
the association. Each depositor of articles for sale is required to pay 
an annual fee of $1 and a commission of 10 per cent on all sales. There 
are now nearly 250 subscribing members of the association. 

The Societa Operaia Italiana Avas founded by Italian mechanics and 
laborers, to educate their children, paying the expenses out of the soci- 
ety funds when necessary. It also helps needy Italians in this country, 
principally by obtaining work for them, and especially aims to disabuse 
Americans of the idea that Italians are a class of mendicants, and invokes 
Italian organ grinders and beggars to abandon their lazy employment. 
A weekly allowance of $5 is made to a sick member, and at death $100 
is paid to the widow. The society was organized Sept. 18, 1881, and 
incorporated Feb. 24, 1882. The membership is about 100. Meetings 
are held monthly at 54 Lake Street. S. G. Meli is president. 

The Deak Verein is a Hungarian benevolent society, whose meetings 
are held monthly at the office of the Hebrew Eelief and Aid Association 
Boom 5, No. 200 LaSalle Street. It assists needy Hungarians in all parts 
of the world. It sent $700 to the flood sufferers of Hungary in 1883, 
and aided indigent Hungarians to the extent of $1,000. 

The Schweitzer Benevolent Association has sixty members, all 
natives of Switzerland. It was organized in 1872, chiefly for the relief 
of distressed Swiss immigrants, but also to provide for destitute Swiss 
people living in this country. The Swiss republic and several of the 
Swiss cantons aid it with an annual donation. Eegular meetings are 
held monthly at Uhlich's Hall. L. Boerlin, Swiss Consul, is president; 
Alfred Bucher. 1G8 Market Street, is secretary. 

St. George's Benevolent Association is one of the oldest benevolent 
organizations in the city, and its good work has been widely felt. It 
gives advice to English immigrants, and grants relief to persons of En- 



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glish parentage, not members of the association, who are of good moral 
character. It visits the sick, buries the dead and cares for the widows 
and orphans of deceased members, and performs other mutual offices of 
benevolence. There are about 300 members enrolled. Meetings are 
held monthly at the Sherman House. 

The Scandinavian Emigrant Relief Society was organized May 5, 
1881, to look after the interests of Scandinavian immigrants, and give 
them such information and assistance as they may require. The office 
is at No. 183 North Peoria Street, where an agent of the society is ready 
to respond to calls. 0. L. Stangelancl, 239 West Erie Street, president. 

The Svea Society is a Swedish organization, dating from Jan. 22, 
1857. It is devoted to literary and benevolent objects. It occupies a 
suite of rooms at the corner of Chicago Avenue and Larrabee Street, 
which include a library with 1,600 volumes, meeting room, etc. Each 
member is entitled to $6 per week when sick, and upon death his heirs 
receive $100. There are 175 members. Axel Chytraus, Koom 17, No. 
80 Dearborn Street, is secretary. 

The Chebra Kadisha Ubikur Cholim is a Jewish benevolent organi- 
zation. It holds religious services on the holidays ; relieves the sick 
and gives deceased members ritualistic burial. It was organized in 
1861. Its monthly meetings are held on the first Sundays at the corner 
of Clinton and Eandolph Streets. 

The Western Society for the Suppression of Vice (Chicago branch) 
was organized in 1878, since which time its influence has been largely 
felt. It aims to secure the enforcement of the laws for the suppression 
of obscene literature, illustrations, advertisements and articles of inde- 
cent and immoral use. During the year 1883 fourteen dealers were 
arrested, with convictions and pleas of guilty in twelve cases, sentences 
to imprisonment aggregating six years and six months, and fines 
amounting to over $1,500. A large quantity of obscene matter was 
captured. The branch has a membership of 200. The office is at 6 
Arcade Court. W. W. Vanarsdale is secretary. 

The Young Men's Hebrew Charity Society has been in existence 
about three years. It gives a " charity ball" annually, the proceeds of 
which are given to the various charity societies of the city, without 
regard to sect. About $10,000 have been distributed in.this way. Levi 
A. Eliel, 53 Dearborn Street, is secretary. 

The Schwaben Verein is a German society of 250 members, organ- 
ized March 1, 1878, for social and benevolent purposes. It has held 
seven annual festivals, which have yielded some $20,000, out of which 
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130 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

about $3,000 have been given for charitable purposes. These festivals 
are usually held at Ogden's Grove, in August of each year. The society 
has had plans and drawings made, and will erect a monument to the 
poet Schiller, in Lincoln Park, and at a cost of $15,000, for which 
$3,000 have already been set aside. 

The Irish Catholic Colonization Association of the United States is 
a stock company, organized March 17, 1879, with a capital of $100,- 
000, divided into 400 shares. It is composed of prominent Irish 
Americans, and has for its purpose the colonization of Irish immi- 
grants in the western states and territories. It has been fairly success- 
ful in its work, and has planted a number of nourishing colonies in Min- 
nesota, Nebraska and Dakota. The headquarters in Chicago are at the 
office of the vice-president, W. J. Onohan, City Hall. 

The Danish Veteran Society is composed of veterans who fought for 
the cause of Denmark in the Dano- German wars of 1848-49-50 and 
1864. It extends a helping hand to any member in need of substan- 
tial aid. It was incorporated in 1874. 

The Society for Home Teaching of the Blind was organized in 
1883 by a number of young married couples. It maintains a free 
lending library for blind people at No. 4 Arcade Court. The library 
contains nearly 300 volumes of the choicest books, printed in raised 
letters, and a large number of blind persons go to the rooms every 
Saturday afternoon for books, and to meet in social converse ; and a 
missionary is employed to teach the blind to read at their own homes. 
C. H. Adams is president and H. H. Bradley is secretary and treasurer. 
Mrs. Victor Lawson is chairman of the board of managers. 

Benevolent and Mutual Aid Societies not heretofore mentioned 
are: Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association, organized in 1879; 
Postoffice Employes' Mutual Aid Association, 1874; Letter Carriers' 
Belief Fund Association, 1876; Policemen's Benevolent Association, 
1868; Benevolent Association of the Paid Fire Department, 1863; 
Firemen's Benevolent Association, 1847 ; Mutual Benefit and Aid Soci- 
ety (German), 1871-74; First German Christian Aid Society, 1859; 
Cristoforo Columbo Mutual Aid Society, 1879 ; Cambrian Benevolent 
Society, 1848 ; Northwestern Traveling Men's Association, 1875 ; Soci- 
eta Italiana Di Unione E Fratellanza, 1868 ; German Mutual Benefit 
Association, 1875; Sociefce Francaise De Secours Mutuals ; Bavarian 
Verein ; Deutcher Krieger Verein ; Chebra Gemiluth Ubikur Cholim. 

The numerous secret and fraternal life assurance societies are 
omitted from this volume for want of space. 



%he (Stubs anb ^Societies. 

LITERARY, SOCIAL, PpLITICAL, SPORTING, PLEASURE, AND OTHER 
CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 

THE clubs and societies present numerous and varied features of the 
social side of life, and afford an interesting field for the study 
of human nature, representing as they do its gregarious elements. The 
principal clubs are purely social, providing the enjoyment of the 
amenities of social intercourse for hours that would otherwise be laden 
with ennui instead of winged with refreshment. Other associations 
are devoted to the prosecution of some special purpose, either as a 
diversion, or for mental or physical exercise in some particular line, or 
for mutual improvement or assistance in the prosecution of a common 
purpose. Chicago is abundantly supplied with all classes of these 
organizations. 

The Chicago Literary Club is the leading literary organization in 
the city, and ranks among the highest in the country. Its membership 
includes some of the brightest minds of the age, men whose reputations 
are international, such as Rev. Robert Collyer, Rev. David Swing, Rev. 
R. A. Holland, Prof. Louis Dyer, of Harvard University, Thomas 
Hughes, M. P., Seymour Haden, the famous etcher, Lieut. Gen. Sher- 
idan and others. The club was organized April 21, 1874, for the pur- 
pose of discussing topics of interest in essays, conversations, etc. It 
has a membership of about 200, probably one-third of the members 
being non-residents, and occupies a fine suite of rooms on the sixth 
floor of Portland Block. In addition to the rooms usually required for 
club purposes, there is an auditorium for the weekly discussions which 
take place on Monday evenings. The following is a list of the presidents 
of the club since its organization : Rev. Robert Collyer, Hon. Charles B. 
Lawrence, Dr. Hosmer A. Johnson, Daniel L. Shorey, Edward G. Mason, 
William F. Poole, Rev. Brooke He:ford, Edwin C. Larned, George How- 
land, Maj. Henry A. Huntington. Only gentlemen are admitted to 
membership. The annual dues are $24. Dr. Charles Gilman Smith is 
president; Fred W. Gookin, secretary and treasurer. 

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132 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

It was organized by the late Mrs. Kate Newell Doggett, June 4, 1873, 
for the purpose of social and intellectual culture. The club soon gath- 
ered many of the brightest intellects of Chicago. It has ample rooms 
in the Art Institute building, on Michigan Avenue and Van Buren 
Street, in which afternoon meetings are held semi-monthly, except 
from May to October. The afternoon meeting of the fourth Friday in 
October is supplemented by a reception in the evening. The member^ 
ship is limited to 175, and there are now 140. The admission fee is 
$10, and the annual dues $10. The tendency of thought, as exhibited 
in the essays, is philosophical in the modern sense of the word, and much 
of the work done by the association is of the highest literary character. 
Mrs. Mary H. Loomis is president ; Mrs. Helen S. Shedd, secretary ; 
Mrs. Brasilia Wilkinson, treasurer. 

The Chicago Women's Club was founded by Mrs. Caroline M. Brown, 
for the purpose of securing mutual sympathy, counsel and united effort 
toward the progress and higher civilization of humanity. It was organ- 
ized in 1875, with Mrs. Brown as president. Among the practical 
results of its labors are the appointment of a woman physician on the 
medical staff of the Cook County Insane Asylum, and of a night matron 
in the woman's department of the jail, and the support of a charity 
kindergarten near the corner of Arnold and Butterfield Streets. There 
are classes in art and literature, and efforts are being made to establish 
classes in kitchen gardening. Each branch of the work is placed in 
charge of a committee. The rooms of the club are in the Art Institute 
building at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Van Buren Street. 
Begular meetings are held semi-monthly. Mrs. Henry L. Frank is 
president ; Mrs. Helen C. Pierce, secretary ; Mrs. H. B. Stone, treasurer. 

The Press Club of Chicago was organized and incorporated in Jan- 
uary, 1880, for the purpose of securing a closer intimacy among mem- 
bers of the journalistic profession in Chicago, and affording them a 
place of rest and recreation during their unemployed hours. The club 
now has about 170 members, and is probably the only unmixed news- 
paper club in the country. Nobody is eligible to membership who has 
not been for at least one year prior to his application, connected in a 
literary capacity Avith a Chicago newspaper, or who shall not have been 
engaged in purely literary work for the same length of time. The 
rooms are on the third floor of 113 Madison Street, and include a 
library and reading room, an assembly room, a billiard room, a pool-* 
table and bar, and a card room. The last Saturday night in each month 
is termed " Fourth Night," and is devoted to a reception of the mem- 



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bers of the club, their friends, and ladies. In the autumn of each year 
there is a grand benefit performance in some leading place of amuse- 
ment, the proceeds of which are contributed to the library fund. Some 
of the best operatic and dramatic talent of both continents has appeared 
at these annual entertainments. On the anniversary of the organiza- 
tion, a grand banquet is given by the club at one of the principal hotels, 
to which distinguished literary men are invited and entertained as 
guests. The membership fee is $15 ; the annual dues, $12. The club 
has the portrait of each president done in oil at the close of his term. 
F. B. Wilkie, one of the main organizers of the club, was its first presi- 
dent and James K. Bradwell, of the Legal Neivs, is the present presid- 
ing officer. 

The Chicago Club is one of the oldest and most fashionable clubs 
in the city. It owns 
its building, has its 
own cuisine, and is 
modeled in many 
essential respects 
after the estab- 
lished clubs of the 
old world. It was 
founded in 1869 
by very prominent 
citizens, among 
whom were Philip 
Wadsworth, Chas. 
B. Farwell, Octa- 
vius Badger, G. H. 
Wheeler and oth- 
ers. The club house 
was for a time on 
Michigan Avenue, 
but having erect- 
ed the handsome 
building it now 
occupies on Mon- 
roe Street, opposite the rainier House, the club moved into it in 1875. 
The house is of red brick with tasteful stone trimmings, and is five 
stories in height with a basement. Following the French plan the 
culinary department is placed on the fifth floor. The private and 




Interior View Chicago Club House. 



134 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

general dining-rooms, on the next floor below, are so arranged that 
they can all be thrown into one when necessary. The third floor is 
occupied by sleeping-rooms, and the second story by the library, card 
and directors' rooms, and a fine billiard room. The reception rooms, 
cafe and reading rooms, on the first floor, are entered through an im- 
posing hall. All the rooms are artistically finished, and there are many 
excellent paintings, among which is a portrait of President Fairbank, 
by the well-known Healy. The club is a purely social organization. 
The membership numbers over five hundred ; the initiation fee is 
$300, and the annual dues $80. N. K. Fairbank is president ; Thomas 
S. Kirkwood, secretary and treasurer. 

The West Side Club was founded in November, 1882. It occupies 
a fine three-story club house at 451 Washington Boulevard, which con- 
tains parlors, reception, library, card and billiard rooms, and all other 
necessary appointments. The club is social in its purpose, and gives 
literary and musical entertainments which are of an excellent charac- 
ter. There are 125 members. Philip Stein is president. 

The Calumet Club, located on Michigan Avenue and Twentieth 
Street, is probably the largest social organization of the kind in the 
west, and enjoys the possession of a building which, in extent, conven- 
ience and elegance of finish and furnishing is not surpassed by that of 
any similar institution. The Calumet is regarded as the most aristo- 
cratic club in the city. It was organized April 4, 1878, and was insti- 
tuted under its charter with Gen. Anson Stager as president ; Charles 
J. Barnes as vice-president ; and F. B. Tuttle, treasurer and secretary. 
A spacious dwelling at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Eighteenth 
Street was the home of the club until it completed the palatial struct- 
ure it now occupies. The building is of red brick with terra-cotta 
trimmings, covers an area 81x183^ feet, and its height of ninety feet 
is divided into five stories and a basement. The main entrance is a 
massive doorway, which opens into a hall of striking dimensions and 
decoration. On the left of the hall there is a fine old-fashioned fire- 
place, with andirons and other ancient fixtures. Opposite the entrance 
rises the principal stairway, at the first landing of which a large window 
presents a view of Calumet Lake in stained glass. The main reading- 
room is one of the most elegant apartments in the city, with carved 
furniture, and walls adorned with full-length portraits of many dis- 
tinguished citizens, among them Hon. John "Wentworth, Gen. Anson 
Stager, Edson Keith, and Gen. Phil. Sheridan. The billiard-room and 
the cafe in the rear are handsomely fitted up, and the assembly room 



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is remarkable for its size, and for its artistic frescoes. The card-room 
is superbly furnished, the ceiling beautifully frescoed, and the stained 
glass windows hung with rich and costly curtains. The " Old Settlers' 
Boom " is one of the most interesting in the building, containing a 
large collection of portraits of prominent men and 
pioneers, and curiosities and relics of early Chicago. 
An entresol between the second and third floors is 
allotted to members' sleeping-rooms. The dining- 




Calumet Club House. 

hall is capable of seating 300 people, and three private dining-rooms 
connected with the hall can be thrown into one with it. The cuisine 
is noted for its excellence. There are 721 members, most of them 
leading business men of the city. The membership fee is $250, and 
the annual dues $80. J. W. Doane is president ; T. K. Jenkins, secre- 
tary ; C. J. Blair, treasurer. 



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The Commercial Club of Chicago was organized Dec. 27, 1877, for 
social purposes, and to promote the commercial interests of the city. 
It is composed of gentlemen prominently representing those interests. 
The membership is limited to sixty. It has no club house, but meets 
monthly, except during the summer, and gives a grand annual banquet 
in January. It entertains distinguished commercial men from abroad 
in regal style, and is an organization of high character and great use- 
fulness. John M. Clark is president ; A. F. Seeberger, treasurer ; 
George C. Clarke, secretary. 

The Standard Club occupies a high position as a social organization. 
It was instituted April 5, 1869. Its club-rooms are at 1302 Michigan 
Avenue, and are handsomely fitted up. The members number 190, 
nearly all of the Jewish faith. Charles H. Schwab is president; E. 
Hoffman, treasurer ; B. Mergentheim, secretary. 

The Chicago Merchants' Club was started Jan. 29, 1884, for social 
purposes and to aid in maintaining the dignity of mercantile avoca- 
tions. It purchased the elegant apartments at the southwest corner of 
Clark and Madison Streets previously occupied by the Chicago Mercan- 
tile Club, which had fitted them up at a cost of $15,000. They in- 
clude all the usual reception, sleeping, refreshment and amusement 
rooms. The dining-room is capable of seating 125 persons. The 
attractive cuisine of the club is much resorted to by the members, who 
are 150 in number, and many of them resort to it for one or more of 
their daily meals. Ladies are admitted to the club-rooms on Satur- 
days. The membership fee is $50, and the annual dues $60. L, H. 
Bisbee is president ; John W. Hepburn, secretary ; Albert Seckel, 
treasurer. 

The Heather Club has forty members, principally Scotchmen. It 
was organized in the spring of 1881, for the purpose of literary and 
social intercourse. Weekly meetings are held at the club rooms, No. 
153 Clark Street. George Handy is secretary. 

The Union Club is to the North Side what the Calumet and Chicago 
Clubs are to the South Side, It is an aristocratic institution, its mem- 
bership of 500 being drawn from the highest social circles. It was 
organized in February, 1878; located at State Street and Chicago 
Avenue for about eighteen months ; then for three years in the well- 
known Ogden House, opposite Washington Square. In November, 
1883, it moved # into the premises now occupied, which are owned by the 
club.- The building is a massive structure 80 X 86 feet, and stands on 
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Massachusetts, rough dressed, and the style of architecture is original 
and imposing. The design was by Messrs. Cobb & Frost, architects. 
The interior finish throughout, except the parlor, is oak, and very rich. 
The main entrance opens into a large square hall, resembling a baronial 
hall of the times of " good queen Bess." The hall has a wide old-fash- 
ioned fire-place for burning cordwood. The stairway leading up from 
this hall is very elegant. The reception room is on the left of the 
entrance, and the office on the right. The double parlor on the same 
floor is finished in mahogany, the division being marked by a mahog- 
any arch of elaborate design. The walls are decorated with choice 




Union Club Housh. 

pictures. The cafe is quite unique, resembling the. interior of an old 
English inn. The large salon, or assembly room, and the library, card 
and directors' rooms, are on the second floor, and the third floor is 
devoted to lodging rooms for members. The location at Dearborn 
Avenue and Washington Place was happily chosen, being in every way 
favorable for the purpose. The entire property cost $150,000. The 
membership fee is $100, and the annual dues $40. The officers are 
A. A. Carpenter, president ; L. J. Gage, vice-president ; H. A. Keith, 
secretary ; and A. W. Cobb, treasurer. 



138 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

The Bankers' Club is an organization of the leading hankers of the 
city, to promote social intercourse and advance the interests of the 
members and of banking generally. The club was instituted early in 
1883, and numbers some seventy members. The meetings are held 
quarterly, and the business of the sessions is usually followed by a 
banquet and general sociability and good fellowship. 

The Illinois Club is the fashionable social organization of the West 
Side, its membership being composed principally of prominent busi- 
ness men who are residents of that section of the city. The club was 
organized in April, 1878, and occupies a two-story stone front mansion 
at 154 South Ashland Avenue, one of the finest of the West Side thor- 
oughfares. The premises were designed for a fine residence, and cost 
$40,000, and the houie was refitted for club purposes at a cost of 
$10,000. An addition is now in course of construction which will cost, 
with furniture, $30,000 more. The art gallery of the Illinois Art Asso- 
ciation will occupy a portion of the new building. The furnishing 
throughout — billiard, card and reading rooms, parlors and all other 
apartments — is both elegant and substantial ; the decoration is of a 
highly artistic order. The walls are hung with many choice works of 
art from the most noted studio's of Europe and America. The recep- 
tions and musicales given by the club are delightful entertainments, 
and the club house is thronged with representatives of the world of 
fashion on such occasions. The membership fee is $100, and the 
annual dues $40. There are 300 members, to which number the club 
is limited. The institution is well managed and prosperous, having a 
surplus in the treasury. J. H. Bradley is president ; Fred. K. Morrill, 
secretary ; W. A. Hammond treasurer. 

The Union League Club was organized in 1879 as the Chicago 
Club of the Union League of America. It is both social and political 
in character, one of the conditions of membership being absolute and 
unqualified loyalty to the government of the United States. Its mem- 
bership is limited to 1,000, and now numbers 850, and includes many 
prominent citizens. It occupies its handsome new club-house on the 
corner of Jackson Street and Fourth Avenue, which was erected at a 
cost of $150,000, not including the expensive and luxurious furniture 
and fittings. The club formerly occupied apartments in the Hon ore 
building, corner Dearborn and Adams Streets, and removed to the pres- 
ent location in 1886. A feature of the club is its excellent cuisine, and 
many of its members resort to it for dinner and luncheon daily. J. 
McGregor Adams is president. 



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The Lakeside Club is the youngest of the Chicago clubs, dating 
from* June 2, 1884. It occupies two finely furnished mansions on 
Wabash Avenue and Thirtieth Street. It has about 120 members, 
and is preparing to build a club house at a cost of some $50,000. 
The membership fee is $25, and the annual dues $50. Morris 
Beifield is president ; Jacob Kahn, treasurer ; N. A. Mayer, secretary. 

The Iroquois Club is a social and political organization, instituted 
by leading Democrats during the Hancock campaign of 1880. It waj 
at first called "The Chicago Democratic Club," and held its meetings 
in the Palmer House. In October, 1881, it was reorganized and incor- 
porated under its present title. Politically it limits its field to national 
politics. It has fitted up in elegant style six stories of Haverly 
Theater building, which it occupies under a lease for five years. There 
are reception, reading, smoking, bar, card, billiard, dressing, cafe and 
toilet rooms ; private dining rooms, and a main dining hall elaborately 
finished and hung with pictures, three spacious rooms which can be 
thrown into one for use as the general assembly room, and give seating 
capacity for 500 persons, with a raised platform overlooking the hall 
thus formed ; and there are also a well provided culinary department 
and other conveniences. The membership fee is $50, and the annual 
dues $40. The number of members exceeds 500. The club has made 
itself a power in the Democratic party, and has a national reputation 
and influence. Erskine M. Phelps is president ; Walter Mattocks and 
Frank G. Hoyne, secretaries ; J. H. MCxivoy, treasurer. 

The Saracen Club was organized in 1876 by Mrs. Fernanda Jones, 
for the purpose of promoting social and intellectual culture among its 
members. It is a mixed club of ladies and gentlemen. The meetings 
are held on the first Thursday evening of every month at the residence 
of some one of the members. The membership is limited to fifty. 
The annual meeting takes place on the first Thursday in May. Henry 
W. Fuller is president ; William M. Payne, secretary and treasurer. 

The Chicago Liberal League was organized in 1881, and now has 
a membership of nearly 100 persons. Its main object is to secure and 
maintain a complete separation of church and state in all things ; and 
to promote this end it holds regular Sunday evening meetings at Odd 
Fellows' Hall, corner of Halsted and Madison Streets, for the free dis- 
cussion and agitation of the subject. E. A. Stevens is president ; Mrs. 
L. M. Swank is recording secretary, and Henry Borg is treasurer. 

The Society for Ethical Culture was incorporated in April, 1883. Its 
object is to find and disseminate "a truer philosophy of life and a 



140 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

higher ideal of duty " than are presented in the speculative philosophy 
and dogmatic theology of the day. To this end the society provides 
weekly lectures and discussions for adults, classes for the instruction 
of children, and normal classes for older students. It has also insti- 
tuted a system of Belief Works, which has been incorporated and is 
one of the active relief agencies of the city. Among the 100 mem- 
bers of the society are some of the most prominent gentlemen in the 
literary and social circles of Chicago. A. B. Hosmer, M. D., 170 State 
Street, is secretary ; W. M. Salter, 83 Madison Street, lecturer. 

The Moral Educational Society is composed of ladies, assisted by 
an advisory board of ladies and gentlemen. It was founded Nov. 13, 
1882, for the dissemination of elevated ideas relative to marriage and 
parenthood, the abolition of vice, and the moral training of youth. 
The meetings are held monthly at the Grand Pacific Hotel, and are 
open to all ladies desiring to attend. The society also holds public 
meetings occasionally. Some thirty-six members are now enrolled. 
Miss Mary Bye, 383 Washington Boulevard, is secretary. 

The Margaret Fuller Society seeks by discussion and study to 
advance the education of women in political economy and the princi- 
ples of government. It was instituted Aug. 3, 1880, and is the first 
society of the name. It is composed of ladies, gentlemen being ad- 
mitted only as honorary members. Some forty names are on the rolls. 
The society holds its meetings semi-monthly at the Grand Pacific 
Hotel, and its proceedings are published from time to time. Miss 
Louisa Burpee is secretary. 

The Unity Club was organized on the 10th of January, 1883, 
by Kev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, pastor of All Souls' Church. The 
purpose is to study and discuss the writings of Bobert Browning, 
and other literary works and art subjects. There are forty members, 
mainly of the church congregation. The meetings are held monthly 
in All Souls' Society Hall. Bev. J. L. Jones is president ; Miss Eva 
Manierre, secretary ; Charles Ware, treasurer. 

The Illinois Association of the Sons of Vermont is one of the largest 
state clubs in the west. It grew out of a centennial celebration held 
Jan. 17, 1877, by natives of Vermont, in commemoration of the formal 
declaration of the people of Vermont at Westminster Court-house that 
they were an independent commonwealth. A permanent organization 
was effected on the 2 2d of the following month. Begular meetings 
are held semi-annually in Boom 70, Government Building. The club 
seeks to promote a more cordial interest and sympathy among natives 



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of tlie Green Mountain state who reside in Illinois, and gives a grand 
annual banquet at the Palmer House on the 17th of January, which 
is usually attended by 400 or 500 people. It has 300 members. 
Elbridge G. Keith is president ; E. B. Sherman, Eoom 70 Government 
Building, secretary; H. H. Nash, treasurer. 

The Channing Club is an organization of Unitarians, for social pur- 
poses and the general advancement of Unitarian interests in Chicago 
and the west. It meets monthly, except in July, August and Septem- 
ber, at the Union League rooms. The programme of exercises em- 
braces essays, papers and general discussion, preceded by a collation. 
The club rooms, at 1 35 Wabash Avenue, include offices for organizations 
engaged in Unitarian work in the west, and pleasant reception rooms 
where visitors to Chicago interested in the Unitarian cause are cordially 
received. Eric "Winters is secretary and treasurer. 

The Garibaldi Legion is an Italian society with purely social and lit- 
erary objects. It was organized in 1882, soon after the death of the 
Italian statesman whose name it bears. There are about seventy-five 
members. Meetings are held on the second Friday of each month at 
Uhlich's Hall. John G. Biggio is president, and John Ginochio is 
secretary. 

The Plattsdeutschen Verein was organized Nov. 15, 1874, and incor- 
porated on the 26th of March the following year. It membership is 
composed entirely of "Low Dutch," and its object is to encourage and 
keep in practice the customs and usages of the mother country, and 
especially to keep fresh the "Low Dutch" literature and language. 
The society has a small library. Meets at Uhlich's Hall Thursday 
evenings. 

The Virginia Society is a club established in 1880 to promote social 
intercourse among natives of Virginia and their descendants. Among 
its founders were the late Cyrus H. McCormick, who was the first presi- 
dent ; the late Gen. N. B. Buford, Judge S. M. Moore, and Judge John 
G. Kogers. Four meetings are held each year, at the Palmer House, 
subject to call. 0. W. Nixon is president ; H. L. Mason, secretary ; S. 
G. Seaton, treasurer. 

The Citizens' Association of Chicago was organized in 1874, to 
promote municipal reforms, rectify and prevent abuses, sustain popular 
rights against encroachment, secure the enactment and enforcement of 
good laws, encourage desirable enterprises, and generally to assist in 
advancing the interests of the city and the people in respect to order, 
justice, and the development of industry and trade. It does not engage 



142 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

in any enterprise for any religious denomination, political organization, 
or organization interested in promoting tempera nee or sumptuary leg- 
islation. It keeps vigilant watch over every public interest, and 
promptly interferes upon every reasonable occasion. It lias over 900 
members, who are divided into committees having special departments 
to look af:er, such as finance, military, theater-;, tenement houses, 
street obstructions, railway crossings, fast driving, education, adultera- 
tion of food, civil service reform, taxation, city and county legislation, 
judiciary, elections, water supply, pavements, etc. The rooms of the 
association are at 35 Merchants' Building, 92 LaSalle Street. J. C. 
Ambler is secretary. 

The Sons of Maine is the title of a club composed of natives of the 
state of Maine, who hold social reunions and in other ways unite in 
keeping up a patriotic pride in the Pine Tree state. It was organized in 
April, 1880, and has about 200 members. Kegular meetings are held 
semi-annually, generally at the Palmer House. The first meeting of 
the year is always on the 20th of March, the date of the admission of 
Maine into the Union. George M. How is president ; Newton Good- 
win, secretary ; William Sprague, treasurer. 

The Illinois St. Andrew's Society, one of the oldest social and 
benevolent associations in the city, was organized in January, 1846, 
and chartered in 1853. It takes kindly care of those of the Scottish 
nationality who need its aid and counsel, and has a burial place in Kose 
Hill, where are interred those Scotchmen who die destitute in Chicago. 
A monument designates the ground, and over each grave is a plain 
stone which records the name, etc., of the stranger. The society 
derives its funds from initiation fees of $2 each, membership fees of $3 
per annum, the proceeds of the annual dinner on St. Andrew's day, and 
the yearly balls given for the benefit of the ladies, who do not attend 
the anniversary dinners. George Anderson, Esq., is the only survivor 
of the original organizers, and his recitation of "Tarn O'Shanter'' is 
always a feature of the anniversary banquet. Andrew Wallace is presi- 
dent, 95 Dearborn Street. 

The Chicago Bar Association, incorporated in 1874, was organized 
to maintain the honor and dignity of the profession of the law, to cul- 
tivate social intercourse among its members, and to increase its useful- 
ness in promoting the due administration of justice. The incorporators 
were : Charles M. Sturges, James P. Boot, C. B. Lawrence, Charles 
Hitchcock, Robert T. Lincoln and Ira 0. Wilkinson. The annual meet- 
ing of the association is held on the second Saturday in January. The 



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membership fee is $15. The board of managers meet monthly, except 
in July, August and September, at Boom. 71, County Building. F. Q. 
Ball is president ; George W. Cass, secretary, and Bobert E. Jenkins, 
treasurer. 

The Cook County Teachers' Association is composed of teachers 
engaged in the practice of their profession, in ths school districts out- 
side of the city. The total number of teachers so engaged is 650, and 
there is an average attendance of about 300 at the meetings, which are 
held monthly from October to May, inclusive, in Methodist Church 
Block. A growing interest is manifested in the programme of exer- 
cises, which embraces addresses by prominent educators, essays and 
discussions, all bearing upon the work of the members. The associa- 
tion was organized in 1878. William H. Bay, Hyde Park, secretary. 

The Chicago Turngemeinde is the oldest and strongest German 
society in the city. It dates its organization from 1853, and now has a 
membership of over 400. It owns Turner Hall at 255 North Clark 
Street. The corner stone of the building was laid in the summer of 
1872, and the official opening of the hall took place Jan. 1, 1873. 
The property has now a value of fully $175,000. The main hall has a 
floor space of 75x125. The gymnasium is thoroughly equipped, and 
the library, reading and meeting rooms are appropriately arranged. 
The library contains over 3,000 volumes, and includes many standard 
German works. The reading-room is supplied with the leading Ger- 
man periodicals. At an evening school, conducted in the building, 
instruction is given in the languages by competent teachers. There 
are also a school of short-hand and classes in drawing, free to members 
of the society. About 500 children, of both sexes, are instructed in 
gymnastics. The first Turner Hall, occupied in 1863, was destroyed 
by the great fire, and the present building was erected on its site. The 
president of the society is L. Nettelhorst ; the financial secretary is H. 
Heinemann, and the treasurer is E. Fielder. 

The Turn Verein Voerwarts has about 250 members. It formerly 
owned the West Side Turner Hall, 251 West Twelfth Street, and 
although it become necessary, through financial embarrassment, to sell 
the property, the society still occupies the hall. The gymnasium has 
an excellent equipment. Senior classes are taught in the evening, and 
juvenile classes in the afternoon, Prof. W. Zoller being the instructor. 

The Bohemian Gymnastic Association ("Sokol") is the "central 
union" of thirteen branch societies, distributed among the leading- 
American cities. Four of these branches are in Chicago. The mem- 



144 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

bership of the association is composed of delegates from the branch 
societies. Its main object is to promote the mental and physical cult- 
ure of the Bohemian people in this country. It meets on the first 
Friday of each month at 74 West Taylor Street. J. B. Belohradsky is 
president, and George Hajek, secretary. 

The Aurora Turn Verein was organized Feb. 22, 1864. It formerly 
owned Aurora Turner Hall, corner of Huron Street and Milwaukee 
Avenue. Becoming financially embarrassed the hall was sold, but the 
society continues to occupy it. The gymnasium, which is the leading 
feature, is well equipped with devices for gymnastic exercise, and there 
are senior and juvenile classes, for the boys and girls. The library 
contains several hundred books, mostly German, and the reading-room 
is supplied with the leading German periodicals. The membership 
numbers about 270, and the society is flourishing. William Legner is 
president; Prof. Aug. Zaph, teacher. 

The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, organ- 
ized in 1867, ha? its headquarters for the state of Illinois in this city. 
Its members are, or have been commissioned officers of the United 
States army and navy, who made honorable records during the late 
war. The Illinois membership numbers about 175, mostly in Chicago. 
Meetings are held monthly at the rooms of the Chicago Literary Club, 
in Portland Block, at each of which some member reads a paper on 
some battle or campaign. Gen. Sheridan commanded here until his 
removal to Washington. He was succeeded by Col. John Mason Lewis. 

The Eighty-second Illinois Veteran Society was organized in Octo- 
ber, 1881, to keep up good fellowship among comrades of the 
regiment, to relieve distress, and to bury dead brethren when neces- 
sary. The members are Germans and Scandinavians. The meetings 
are held monthly at No. 171 North Clark Street. Joseph Eeilling is 
president ; Geo. Vocke, secretary ; Peter Lauer, treasurer. 

The Nineteenth Illinois Infantry Volunteers Veteran Club num- 
bers fifty members, and was organized in the summer of 1880, to 
promote reunion and mutual good fellowship. Kegular meetings are 
held monthly at No. 106 Bandolph Street. 

The Veteran Union League is composed of old Union soldiers of 
any regiment or state, honorably discharged, together with a limited 
number of their friends. It was organized for social and political pur- 
poses, and dates from June, 1880. It has a total of 175 active and 
honorary members, including some of the best citizens of Chicago. It 
is an offshoot of the Chicago Union Veteran Club, its members being 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 145 

also members of the latter organization. The League has handsomely 
furnished apartments at No. 185 Clark Street, a whole floor being 
fitted up for its use. Begular meetings are held here monthly. W. S. 
Scribner is president ; W. W. King, treasurer ; W. H. Coulston, Matte- 
son House, secretary. A growing interest is minifested in the affairs of 
the League, and it promises to increase in influence from year to year. 

The Union League of America was founded the first year of the 
late civil war, for the purpose of supporting, protecting and defending 
the constitution and government of the United States against all ene- 
mies. It had many stirring assemblies during the years of the great 
conflict, and did incalculable good for the country. The nucleus of 
the organization was formed at a meeting of eleven patriotic persons 
in Cleveland, Ohio. The work of organization spread rapidly, and in 
May, 1863, the national council met for the first time, with eighteen 
states represented. From that time the league gained rapidly in 
strength, and soon extended its beneficent influence over the entire 
country, counting its members by the millions. It has little more than 
a nominal existence at present, though the organization is still intact. 
The Grand Council of the State of Illinois has its headquarters at 
Koom 415, First National Bank building. George Harlow is president ; 
Henry S. Hawley, secretary, and John C. Baker, treasurer. 

The Thirteen Club was organized April 13, 1883, to combat the 
superstition as to the unlucky character of Friday, of the number 
Thirteen, and other relics of folk lore. There is also provision for 
assisting members or their families in case of sickness or death among 
them. The number Thirteen is introduced in every possible way. 
At all banquets each table must contain exactly thirteen, and the regu- 
lar meetings are held on the thirteenth of each month, in Boom 13, at 
the Grand Pacific Hotel. The exercises are social and literary. The 
club now en tains two groups of thirteen, or twenty-six members in 
all. Francis H. Hill is chief ruler ; William C. Duncan, scribe ; W. H. 
Bolton, receiver. 

The Canadian Club is a social organization instituted in 1880. It 
has two classes of members, the leading class being native Canadians 
and their descendants, and the other such persons of other national- 
ities as the club may see fit to admit to membership. The latter class 
is limited to 100. The entire membership is 125. The club gives an 
annual dinner. E. J. Ogden is president ; E. B. Ogden, treasurer ; 
W. G. Bichardson, secretary. 
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The Washington Park Club was organized in 1883. Though one 
of the newest, it is one of the most aristocratic club organizations. It 
was modeled after the American Jockey Club of New York City, and 
famous European jockey clubs. It opened its splendid race course — 
for running races — June 28, 1884, with a brilliant and successful meet- 
ing. The grounds, lying just south of Washington Park, contain eighty 
and one-half acres. Nearly $450,000 have been spent on the grounds 
and improvements. The track is eighty feet in width, and a mile in 
circuit. The infield is ornamented with two small lakes. The club 
house is palatial. It covers 80x125 feet of ground and cost over $60,- 
000. It is open to members the year round. The grand stand, 55x504 




Washington Park Club House. 

feet, is three stories high and will seat about 10,000. The stables will 
accommodate 500 horses. The club has over 600 members. The 
entrance fee is $150, and the annual dues $40. The capital stock is 
$250,000. Gen. P. H. Sheridan is president; John R. Walsh, treasurer ; 
and John E. Brewster, secretary. 

The Chicago Union Veteran Club is a strong political organization 
numbering 1,875 active and associate members, among whom are 
many prominent and influential men. It was organized in September, 
1876, to "uphold the principles of the Republican party," but "reserv- 
ing the right to act independently where the interests of the Union 
veteran soldiers are involved;" to procure employment for Union 
soldiers and sailors, and to cultivate good fellowship among the mem- 
bers. It was incorporated Dec. 6, 1880. Sons of deceased Union 
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associate members, if of age. The annual picnics of this club are 
always largely attended. The club exerts a powerful influence in local 
politics. The regular meetings are held monthly at the office of the 
secretary. James A. Sexton is president ; John L. Manning, 163 Wash- 
ington Street, secretary ; William H. Bolton, treasurer. 

The Chicago Board of Trade Battery Association was organized 
July 3, 1865. It is composed of members of the old Board of Trade 
Battery, banded together for mutual benefit and to perpetuate friend- 
ships formed while in active service. All members of the battery are 
considered members of the association. There are ninety-five of these 
living whose residences are known, and eighty-five who may be living, 
but whose residences are not known. The annual meeting for reunion is 
held at the Palmer House club room, on the first Monday in April. 

The Twenty-fourth Illinois Veteran Society was organized in 1868, 
for social and commemorative purposes, and to relieve needy regi- 
mental comrades. It has sixty members, and holds monthly meetings 
at No. 171 North Clark Street. Charles Hagemann is secretary. 

The Chicago Veterans of the Mexican War is ,an association com- 
posed of soldiers, sailors, mariners and teamsters who served in the war 
with Mexico, and were honorably discharged. The general objects are 
social and commemorative, but its special purpose is to aid in placing 
the surviving veterans of the Mexican war on the pension rolls of the 
government, as a just and proper recognition of their services. The 
association, which was formed in November, 1876, now numbers about 
sixty members, nearly all of them residents of the city. Kegular meet- 
ings are held quarterly at No. 106 Kandolph Street. James K. Hue- 
gunin is secretary. 

The Irish -American Club, one of the most popular Irish organiza- 
tions in the city, was founded in 1881, for social, literary and national 
purposes. It has about 300 members, and is the oldest club of the 
kind in the country. It occupies very neat and convenient rooms on 
the third floor of Nos. 88 and 90 Washington Street, which include a 
general meeting hall, reception room, billiard room, reading room and 
library. 

The Chicago Mercantile Battery Veteran Association was formed 
in 1867, disbanded by the great fire of 1871, and reorganized in 1877. 
It now has about 100 members, chieh^ residents of the city and 
suburbs. Its purpose is to bring together socially those who served 
during the war in the Mercantile Battery, so named because it was 
raised by the efforts of the " Mercantile Association" of the city. The 



148 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

present members are all that survive of the 300 who served with the 
battery. An annual reunion is held by the society. 

The Irish-American Council, which was organized in 1869, has a 
membership numbering 195, composed of three delegates from each 
of the sixty-five Irish-American societies in the city. Its office is to 
arrange for the celebration of St. Patrick's and other Irish national 
days. The meetings are at the call of the president. William Curran 
is president. 

The Fritz Reuter Club was organized for social objects in 1881. 
Its membership is restricted to Germans engaged in mercantile pur- 
suits, and is limited to seventy-five. Seventy members are now 
enrolled, and until recently its club rooms under McCormick's Hall, 
were open four days and evenings of each week. At present meetings 
are held on Wednesday evenings only, at Uhlich Hall. 

The Chicago Association of Ex-Union Prisoners of War was first 
organized in April, 1880, as the Prisoners of War Union of Chicago. 
Upon the reorganization of the National Association in September, 
1883, the Chicago subordinate association was also immediately reor- 
ganized. The main object is to secure national legislation for the ben- 
efit of ex-union prisoners of war. Several bills for this purpose have 
already been introduced in Congress, but none of them have yet been 
passed. Meetings are held on the second Friday of each month at No. 
106 Kandolph Street. There are nearly 200 members enrolled. 

The Chicago Photographic Association has for its object the 
advancement of photography, mutual instruction and social good fel- 
lowship. It was organized in 1871, and meets monthly at 229 State 
Street. Prof. H. D. Garrison is president, and F. H. Davies, 88 Walton 
Place, is secretary and treasurer. 

The Chicago Yacht Club is the only yacht club in the city. Its 
club house is at 189 Michigan Avenue, near the anchorage of the fleet, 
which consists of twenty-four vessels, and is harbored behind the gov- 
ernment pier. The yachts are the individual property of the members. 
Among the most noted are the "Wasp," the largest sloop in fresh 
water, owned by Capt. Prindeville, the projector and first commodore 
of the club, and the schooner "Idler," owned by vice-commodore 
Fisher, and believed to be the fastest yacht in the world. At the 
regatta of the New York Yacht Club, June 8, 1876, she made the fastest 
time ever made by any yacht. She has won more prizes than any other 
yacht in America. The club has an annual summer cruise to Milwau- 
kee, attended by a cup race, and social festivities on board, the families 



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and friends of many of the members accompanying them on the crnise. 
The summer and fall regattas on the lake near Chicago are events of 
public interest. The club signal is a swallow- tailed red pennant, with 
a diagonal blue band half the width of the head, the upper margin of 
the band being a straight line from the lower point to the upper clew. 
The club house walls are ornamented with marine pictures and models. 
This club has been the inspiration and support of yachting interest in 
this section, and since its organization has not lost a life in any of its 
cruises or contests. It was organized in 1875, and incorporated in 
1882, and has 150 members. The officers are : A. J. Fisher, commo- 
dore ; E. W. Syer, vice-commodore ; K. F. Pettibone, rear commodore ; 
Harry Duvall, recording secretary ; A. P. Seymour, 162 Washington 
Street, corresponding secretary ; F. W. S. Bramley, treasurer; F. B. H. 
Bonter, measurer; W. Blanchard, M. D., fleet surgeon; C. E. Kremer, 
judge advocate ; Jos. Buff, time-keeper. 

The Farragut Boat Club is the oldest club of the kind now in exist- 
ence in Chicago, and one of the most prominent and influential in the 
amateur boating circles of the United States. It was organized March 
10, 1872, and incorporated July 1, 1875. On three occasions the 
boat house of the club was destroyed by lake storms — at the foot of 
Twenty-first Street in 1874 ; at the foot of Thirteenth Street in 1877 
and at the foot of Twenty-fifth Street in 1882. In the latter case the 
house, a commodious structure of brick and stone, was entirely 
destroyed together with eighteen valuable boats. A temporary house 
of brick was immediately constructed and fully equipped with new 
boats, and the club at once purchased valuable building lots on Lake 
Park Avenue, near Thirty-first Street, and at this writing (October, 
1884,) is actively engaged in the arrangements for the erection of a 
club house to cost $20,000. The working plans indicate a very ele- 
gant and substantial structure, two stories high, over a fine basement 
which will contain the bowling alleys, boat room, and gymnasium. The 
main floor is devoted to parlors, library and club rooms. The third 
floor will contain a fine private theater and dancing hall. Owning but 
one boat in 1872, the club now possesses twenty-five of the most 
expensive boats, including a number belonging to members. The 
entire club property is valued at $20,000. The membership includes 
100 of the representative young men of Chicago. The club has now 
over fifty hard fought victories in aquatic contests, and many flags and 
gold medals attest its prowess in this direction. It is a member of the 
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ley Amateur Bowing Association" and of the "Northwestern Amateur 
Association." The receptions and entertainments given by the Farragut 
Club during the winter season are regarded as among the leading social 
events. The officers are : Lyman B. Glover, president ; Clinton B. 
Hale, vice-president ; George B. Blodgett, secretary ; Frank M. Staples, 
treasurer; George A. McClellan, captain; Charles S. Downs, com- 
mander ; W. B. Collins, Lieut, commander ; W. V. Booth, ensign. 

The Pullman Athletic Association was incorporated in February, 
1883, as a joint stock company, with a capital stock of $10,000. Its 
buildings are located on Athletic Island, Pullman, on the shore of Lake 
Calumet. In addition to a boat house there are two fine grand stands 
commanding a running track and also the rowing course on the lake. 
On the mainland there are cricket and base ball grounds, controlled by 
the club. Athletic games are given under the auspices of the club 
every spring and fall, and several notable regattas have been given by 
it. In 1883 a notable event on the Pullman rowing course was a 
regatta in which Edward Hanlan, John Teamen and all the other lead- 
ing professionals of this county participated. The same year the 
annual regatta of the Mississippi Valley Amateur Bowing Association 
was held on the same course. The membership of the club includes 
many living both in Chicago and Pullman. The president is Mr. E. W. 
Henricks ; secretary, W. B. Harper ; treasurer, John Hopkins. 

The Evanston Boat Club is composed of business men of Chicago, 
who reside in Evanston. It was organized in 1880 and now has sixty- 
five active and seventy-five honorary members. Its club house, located 
at Evanston, was erected at a cost of about $6,000, and its boats and 
other club property are valued at $4,000. The club house is one of 
the best in this section. It contains club rooms, toilet and reception 
rooms, and a spacious dancing hall. The club parties, readings and 
other entertainments given by the club are among its leading features. 
It belongs to the Mississippi Valley Amateur Bowing Association, but 
has only taken part in one contest. H. M. Winnie is president ; F. K. 
Stevens, treasurer; F. J. Kitchell, secretary; E. S. Sherman, captain. 

The Catlin Boat Club was organized April 7, 1882, with seven 
members. A boat house was immediately erected at Cedar Lake, Ind., 
thirty- eight miles from Chicago, which was replaced in 1883 by a 
larger and better structure. It is 28X44 feet, has two stories and is 
provided with reading, sleeping and other rooms. The club now num- 
bers fourteen members. It belongs to the Mississippi Valley Amateur 
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won any prizes. The membership fee is $20, and the annual dues $12. 
Charles Catlin is president ; Eobert Meyers, treasurer ; Thomas P. Hal- 
linan is secretary ; and Thomas W. Beading, captain. 

The Delaware Boat Club was organized in October, 1880. Its club 
house is located on the lake shore, near the North Side water works. 
It is equipped with the usual club conveniences, and a creditable gym- 
nasium. The first entry in the Mississippi Valley Amateur Bowing 
Association regattas was in 1883, at Pullman, where the Delaware's four- 
oared crew took fourth place. And in 1884, the club won the junior 
and senior double scull races of the same association at Moline, 111. The 
club has thirty- two active, associate and honorary members. 

The Ogden Boat Club was the first boat club organized on the 
North Side and dates its existence from 1881. It was chartered in 
1883, and now has a membership of thirty, all young men of high 
social and business standing. It is the strongest boat club in the 
North Division. Its boat house at the foot of Superior Street is trans- 
formed into a gymnasium during winter months. The rowing exercises 
take place in the lake. S. H. Kerfoot, Jr., is president ; Edward Dick- 
inson, secretary. 

The Chicago Canoe Club is composed of about sixty prominent 
business men who practice canoeing for exercise and pleasure. It was 
organized Jan. 11, 1884. Short annual cruises are made by the club 
or in smaller parties. The headquarters of this club are in rooms at 
the Academy of Sciences, 263 Wabash Avenue. 

Tippy Canoe Club is a private canoe club of eighteen members from 
the Chicago Canoe Club. It was organized in 1884, and has a small 
boat house at the foot of Thirty-fifth Street. 

The Iroquois is a boat club of recent organization on the North 
Side. 

The Cumberland Gun Club is devoted to the preservation of game 
and the enforcement of the game laws, and to hunting and Ashing, and 
kindred sports. It controls, by lease and purchase, seven and one-half 
square miles of marsh land in Lake County, Ind. The club house, 
known as " Cumberland Lodge," is six miles from Lowell, on the Louis- 
ville, New Albany & Chicago Bailroad. A keeper is in charge of the 
club house the year round. A gamekeeper and constable are also 
employed during the shooting season. The membership is limited to 
seventy-five, and the membership fee is $75. Semi-annual meetings 
are held at the Sherman House, in January and July. John M. Smyth 
is president ; Chas. K. Herrick, secretary, and John Heiland, treasurer. 



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The Tolleston Club was formed in 1871 by a number of gentlemen 
of Chicago, who for years had resorted to the marshes of the Little 
Calumet Kiver for duck and snipe shooting. It was incorporated under 
the state law of Illinois, March 27, 1873. The tract of marsh land 
owned by the club, comprising some 2,100 acres, lies in Lake County, 
Ind. It is surrounded by a wire fence and is under guard of efficient 
gamekeepers. The club house is located on the north bank of the 
Calumet River, nearly in the center of the extensive marshes. It is 
provided with ample conveniences for sportsmen, and for the social 
entertainment of the members of the club. The club property is valued 
at $75,000. There are over 100 members. F. A. How is president ; 
Edward Starr, secretary; and C. D. Peacock, treasurer. 

The Audubon Club was chartered Jan. 21, 1876, and has for its 
objects the enforcement of the laws for the protection of game, the 
education and advancement of its members in the art of wing-shooting, 
and the collection and preservation of ornithological specimens. It 
has no special place for shooting, but generally meets in Kleinman's 
Park, at Grand Crossing. The annual meeting of the club is held at 
the Sherman House, the second Tuesday in January. There are thirty- 
five active members. Charles Kern, 110 LaSalle Street, is president. 

The Chicago Sharpshooters' Association has over 150 members, 
nearly all Germans, and is the oldest German shooting club in the city. 
It was incorporated Feb. 16, 1865, by act of the legislature which gave 
it the powers of ordinary business corporations, and summary powers in 
dealing with delinquent members. It is devoted to rifle target prac- 
tice. The range, two hundred yards long, is in " Sharpshooters' Park," 
an eighty acre tract of land owned by the association, and valued at 
about $50,000, about two miles southeast of Washington Heights, on 
which are a club house and hall. 

The Mak-Saw-Ba Club took its rame from one of the early Indian 
chiefs of this region. It was organized and incorporated in 1878, and 
is recognized as one of the leading organizations of the kind in this 
locality. It owns over 3,000 acres of land situated in Starke and La 
Porte Counties, Indiana, sixty-four miles from Chicago, especially 
adapted to hunting and fishing, and kindred sports. Its spacious club 
house was erected at a cost of $2,800, and its membership, including 
many prominent men of the city, numbers seventy-five persons. The 
rules adopted for the government of the club prohibit the sale of 
intoxicating liquors on the grounds, and exclude gambling in any form. 
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expressly prohibited on the Sabbath day. Semi-annual business meet- 
ings are held at the Sherman House on the second Monday of Decem- 
ber and June, respectively. George G-. Newbury is president ; William 
E. Chamberlin, treasurer; and Charles D. Newbury, secretary. 

The Fox Lake Shooting and Fishing Club was incorporated in June, 
1879. Its membership is limited to seventy-five, and over fifty are 
now enrolled. The club property is located on the west shore of Fox 
Lake, McHenry County, 111. It consists of several acres of land having 




Club House. 



ample shore line, with broad, clean, pebbly beach. The entire grounds 
are fenced in a substantial manner, and rise from the water's edge to 
the height of eighty feet. There are swings and hammocks, and all 
necessary provisions for croquet and tennis. The main club-house 
stands on a terrace, commanding a beautiful view of the lake. The 
building is a two-story frame, three sides having broad balconies, over- 
grown with woodbine. On the crest of the hill in the rear, and shaded 
by trees, is " Pullman Cottage," a bachelor retreat for the gentlemen of 
the club. At the foot of the bluff is the boat house, the upper story of 
which is devoted to billiards. The club owns several hunting and fish- 



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ing boats, two small sail boats, six row boats, and a large yacht, per- 
fect in model, rigging and finish. The cost of the grounds and 
improvements was $14,500. C. F. Hills is president, and Philo J. 
Beveridge, secretary. J. M. Miller, 85 Washington Street, is manager. 

The Diana Hunting Club owns 2, GOO LC,-es of land at Thayer, 
Indiana, fifty-three miles from Chicago, on the line of the L. N. A. & 
C. Eailway. Twenty acres of the land are under cultivation. The 
club-house contains thirteen rooms and accommodations for forty-five 
persons. The club was incorporated in December, 1881. F. Freu- 
denberg is president ; J. A. Kreutzberg, 86 Oak Street, secretary ; and 
E. E. Eoehl, treasurer. 

The South End Shooting Club, organized in 1873, and subsequently 
incorporated, is confined to trap shooting. Four contests are held each 
year at Watson's Park, Grand Crossing, for a medal, which becomes the 
property of the member who wins it three times. George T. Farmer, 
130 LaSalle Street, is secretary. 

The Sportsmen's Club of Chicago was organized nearly twelve years 
ago, and has at present thirty members, the limit pro /ided by the con- 
stitution. Its club house and grounds are at Water Valley, Indiana, on 
the Kankakee River, fifty-six miles from Chicago. C. A. Orvis is presi- 
dent, and J. J. Flanders, secretary and treasurer. 

The North Chicago Sharpshooters' Association, composed mostly 
of Germans, was incorporated in August, 1879. It has a membership 
of about 125, including many prominent persons. It owns a tract of 
twenty-five acres of land in the southeast corner of the town of Jeffer- 
son, on which is a fine range, 200 yards in length, and a large hall used 
for club purposes. Matches are held every Sunday between April 15 
and September 1. 

The Lake View Pifle Club is now in the seventh year of its history, 
having been organized in February, 1877. Its range is 200 yards in 
length, and is said to be one of the finest in the west. The grounds, 
which are known as the old Lake View House grounds, are nicely situ- 
ated, and are well shaded by large forest trees. The club house is neat 
and appropriate. Piegular shoots are held every Saturday during 
seasonable weather, commencing at 2 p. m. There are thirty-five 
active and fifteen honorary members. Seth F. Hanchett is president ; 
Henry C. Bradley, secretary and treasurer ; John Macauley is captain. 

The Chicago Shooting Club, the largest trap shooting club in the 
city, was incorporated twelve years ago with but seven members. It 
holds four shooting contests each year at Kleinman's Park, Grand 



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victual property of any member who may win it three times. The club 
now has a membership of sixty-five. 

The Southwest Chicago Sharpshooters' Association has a range at 
the corner of Halsted and Fifty-second Streets, the grounds being- 
known as the Southwest Chicago Shooting Park. The park is open 
every day for the pleasure of the members, and the association has 
regular shooting practice every Sunday during seasonable weather. It 
is composed wholly of Germans. It was incorporated March 6, 1877, 
as the " Southwest Chicago Schuetzenverein." 

Other Sportmen's Clubs include the English Lake Shooting and 
Fishing Club ; Lake George Sportsmen's Association ; Yermillion Gun 
Club and Geo. H. Thomas Bine Club. 

The Chicago Bowling Club was c rganized and incorporated in 
1871. It now has a membership of fifteen persons. The club house 
and bowling alley, located at 500 North Clark Street, are owned by the 
club, and valued at $6,500. 

The Chicago Curling Club was organized about twenty-five years 
ago, for the purpose of keeping up an interest in the old Scotch game 
of curling, which is played on ice during the winter months. The 
lakes at Lincoln Park have been used for that purpose for years past, 
but the club has recently purchased property on York Street, near 
Ashland Avenue, at a cost of $20,000, for a club house and an artificial 
pond. There are about 100 members, the majority being natives of 
Scotland. 

The Chicago Cricket Club usually plays its games in Lincoln Park 
on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week during the season, 
which extends from May 15 to October 1. Its membership, numbering 
150 persons, active and associate, includes many fine players, and the 
club is generally recognized as the strongest in the west. It was 
organized in 1876, since which time a greater local interest has been 
manifested in the old English game than ever before. Its roll of hon- 
orary members contains the names of such well-known persons as P. D. 
Armour, Gen. P. F. Sheridan, Mayor Carter H. Harrison and others. 
E. J. Ogden, M. D., is president; R. P. Palmer, 150 LaSalle Street, 
secretary ; E. K. Ogden, M. D., 1636 Michigan Avenue, treasurer. 

The Other Cricket Clubs are all of recent organization. The Wan- 
derers and the St. George's Clubs were each organized in 1883. Both 
are strong clubs. The Wanderers has about fifty members. Its play- 
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F. Rayfield is secretary. The St. George's Club plays at Lincoln Park 
four days of each week. It has about seventy playing members. W. J. 
Dowse, 154 Center Street, is secretary. The Albion Club plays at 
Douglas Park. The Millard Avenue and the Eovers are new clubs on 
the West Side. The Pullman Club, at Pullman, is a very strong club. 

The Chicago Racquet Club is an association organized in 1880, 
with the view of encouraging a taste for racquets and other similar 
diversions tending to muscular development. The club is located at 
185 Michigan Avenue, in the same building with the bicycle club. It 
has a membership of about fifty. The initiation fee is $25, and the 
annual dues $25. Samuel Johnson is president. 

The Chicago Bicycle Club was organized in September, 1879. It 
has sixty-five active members, and an associate membership consisting 
of friends of the club who are not bicyclists. It uses the club house at 
185 Michigan Avenue, jointly with the Racquet Club. The club house is 
provided with a gymnasium, bowling alley, baths and an apartment for 
bicycle practice. Rules of the club provide for five-miles contests every 
thirty days, and annual contests for championship medals. A medal is 
awarded for the greatest number of miles traveled by bicycle each' year. 

The Hermes Bicycle Club is composed of about twenty young men 
of the South Side, under twenty-one years of age. 

The Armory Bicycle Club has about twenty-five members, most of 
them also members of Battery D, State Guards. Headquarters at Bat- 
tery D Armory. 

The Union Riding Club is a fashionable society of ladies and gen- 
tlemen, and the only riding club in the city. It was organized and 
incorporated in 1882. Its spacious and handsome club house, pro- 
vided with all the requisites of a first-class riding club, is located at 
529 North Clark Street. A proficient riding-master instructs the mem- 
bers in the equestrian art. The membership numbers 130 persons, all 
stockholders in the club. 

The Chicago Base Ball Club was first organized in 1870, and was 
a member of the National Association of Base Ball Clubs until that 
organization disbanded in 1876. Since that time it has been a mem- 
ber of the National League, and is now the only professional ball club 
in the city. It won the championship in 1876, 1881 and 1882. The 
year after the great fire it had no team in the field. A. G. Spalding is 
president. 

The Polo Clubs play polo on roller skates only. The Chicago Polo 
Club is the oldest. It was organized in February, 1884, and incorpo- 



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rated the following May. Its members are patrons of the Casino Poller 
Skating Eink. The club has played against some of the best clubs in 
the country, and has gained considerable reputation for proficiency. It 
has nicely fitted up club rooms in the Casino Kink for the entertain- 
ment of visitors and friends. The Princess Polo Club was organized in 
June, 1884, from the best skaters of the Princess Kink. Its match 
games have so far been confined to contests with the Chicago Club. 

The Dania Society, Kinzie and Desplaines Streets, was organized 
Nov. 23, 1862, as the " Society Dania," and reorganized and incorpo- 
rated under its present name in August, 1865. It admits males only 
to membership, and now has about 120 on its rolls. It gives substan- 
tial aid to members when sick ; has a commodious hall and a comforta- 
ble library and reading room, well supplied with Danish and American 
publications. The reading room is open from 3 p. m. till midnight 
every day for the accommodation of members. 

The Chicago Medico-Historical Society meets at the rooms of the 
Medical Press Association, No. 188 Clark Street, annually, on the last 
Friday in April, and quarterly thereafter. It was organized in 1844. 
It collects and publishes data having reference to the medical profes- 
sion, and publishes annually a list of physicians in good standing. Dr. 
P. S. Hayes, secretary and treasurer. 

The Chicago Dental Society was organized in 1864. Its special 
object is to promote dental science and to afford social opportunities to 
its members. At a recent annual meeting Dr. G. V. Black was admitted 
as the first honorary member. Dr. J. G. Keid is secretary. 

The Chicago Academy of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons 
is the oldest homoeopathic society in the city. It was established in 
1869, and its aim is the advancement and improvement of homoeop- 
athy and the collateral branches of medical science. It has a member- 
ship of fifty, and holds monthly meetings at the Grand Pacific Hotel. 
C. E. Ehinger, secretary and treasurer. 

The Chicago Eclectic Medical and Surgical Society was organized 
in 1870. Mutual benefit in the promotion of professional interests, 
the communication and development of useful and scientific knowl- 
edge, and the cultivation of fraternal sentiment, are the special objects 
of the society. Monthly meetings at the Grand Pacific Hotel. E. F. 
Kush, M. D., is secretary. 

The Chicago Medical Press Association is an incorporated joint 
stock company. It provides a library and reading rooms, at 188 Clark 
Street, with a valuable collection of medical and scientific books, peri- 



158 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

odicals, etc., for the use of the stockholders, who must be members of 
the medical profession in good and regular standing. Dr. J. H. Ether- 
edge is secretary, and Dr. J. N. Hyde, editor. 

The Chicago Medical Society meets semi-monthly at the Grand 
Pacific Hotel. Its chief object is mutual improvement in the discussion 
of professional and scientific matters. It is the oldest general medical 
society in the city. It has a membership of 250. L. H. Montgomery, 
M. D., secretary. 

The Women's Homoeopathic Medical Society meets at Koom 43, 
Central Music Hall, on the second Wednesday of each month. It was 
organized in 1879. Dr. Jennie E. Smith is secretary. 

The Chicago Gynecological Society was organized in October, 1878, 
and incorporated in 1880. Its object is the discussion and considera- 
tion of all subjects legitimately connected with obstetrics, gj'necology 
and pediatrics. Its meetings are held monthly at the Grand Pacific 
Hotel. E. W. Sawyer, M. D., is secretary and treasure \ 

The Woman's Physiological Institute was organized in the summer 
of 1880, and is an outgrowth of the Chicago Woman's Club. Its pur- 
pose is to disseminate knowledge relating to the human system, partic- 
ularly with reference to anatomy, physiology, hygiene, the training of 
children, etc. Mrs. Helen Shedd, 3759 Vincennes AA r enue, is president. 

The Medical Science Club was organized by a number of young 
physicians, July 10, 1883, to furnish able and energetic young physi- 
cians an opportunity to exchange information in regard to their inves- 
tigations and discoveries in their respective specialties. Its meetings 
are held semi-monthly in Koom 38, Central Music Hall. F. E. Day is 
secretary and treasurer. 

The Clinical Society of Hahnemann Hospital holds monthly meet- 
ings at the Grand Pacific Hotel. The membership numbers about 300, 
composed of local physicians and the alumni of Hahnemann Medical 
College and of colleges of the same school in various parts of the coun- 
try. The proceedings of the society are published in the Clinique, a 
monthly medical journal. Dr. A. K. Crawford is secretary. 

Other Clubs and Societies, including art, musical and scientific 
organizations, will be found in more appropriate chapters. The church 
societies and literary clubs, all the temperance and secret societies, the 
trade and labor unions, and organizations partaking more of a state or 
national than a local character, and many minor local organizations, 
have been omitted from this volume. 



"©he burial ^Place*. 

THE BURIAL PLACES OF EARLY CHICAGO, THE NEW CEME- 
TERIES, AND THE TOMBS. 

THE burials of early Chicago were generally made near the residences 
of the friends of the deceased. The first dead of the fort were 
buried on a quiet spot of ground near the river on the North Side, and 
not far from the residence of Mr. Kinzie, the pioneer settler, and Avho, 
upon his death in 1828, was interred in the same vicinity. Later, 
those dying at the fort were buried along the sandy shore of the lake 
on the south side of the river. The soldiers who died of cholera in 
1832 were interred very near the present foot of Lake Street. And 
the lake shore, from Lake Street southward for a distance of several 
squares, seems to have become a general burying ground of the embryo 
city. Many of the graves there were afterward washed out by the lashing 
waves of the lake. There was also a small burying ground on the West 
Side, near the forks of the river. It is thought that but few interments 
were made in it. In 1835, under the direction of the town authorities, 
two cemeteries were laid out, one on the South Side and the other on 
the North Side. The former was located on the lake shore, a short dis- 
tance south of where Eighteenth Street now reaches the lake. The 
latter lay on the lake shore just north of the Chicago Avenue of to-day, 
and east of State Street. The North Side water works occupy a por- 
tion of the grounds. The South Side cemetery seems to have been 
more used at first, but few, if any, burials took place in it after 1837. 
Interments were made in the North Side cemetery as late as 1841 or 
1842. The venerable citizen, J. Young Scammon, had a child buried 
there, and friends and relatives of other honored and well-known citi- 
zens still living, rested for a time beneath its sod. The rapid growth 
of the city, however, soon encompassed these cities of the dead, and 
the sleeping inhabitants were removed to the cemetery which was 
located on what is now the south end of Lincoln Park. But even here 
the sacred precincts of the grave were invaded by the resistless march 
of the city. Soon after the close of the late Avar the grounds of the 
cemetery were condemned for park purposes, and most of the bodies 



160 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

were taken up and reburied in the newer cemeteries Avhich had been 
located miles out amid the country solitudes, '• far from the maddening 
crowd's ignoble strife." 

Rosehill Cemetery, located some six and one-half miles north of the 
City Hall, and about one and a half miles west of the lake, takes rank 
with the Campo Santo of. Pisa, or Mount Auburn, Laurel Hill and 
Greenwood of this country. It is the largest of the cemeteries con- 
nected with Chicago, and possesses a site on a rolling upland from 
thirty to forty feet above the level of the lake. It encloses a space of 
about 500 acres, nearly one-half of which is improved. Approaching 
it from any direction, it stands out in alto relief from the level prairie, 
showing in the summer a mass of beautiful green. The main entrance 
to the grounds is through a stately and impressive castellated stone 
structure which contains a chapel appropriately arranged for funeral 
services. Within the grounds the winding and spacious macadamized 
walks and broad carriage drives are hard, smooth and noiseless. The 
slender lakes are bordered with spaces devoted to lawns and exquisite 
evolutions of landscape gardening. The lakes are filled with water 
from an artesian well 2,279 feet deep. There are spacious greenhouses 
and conservatories for propagating plants, shrubs and flowers for 
funeral or grave decoration. The receiving vault, embedded in the 
side of a large grassy mound, is very complete in all its arrangements. 
One of the first memorials which attracts attention, upon entering the 
cemetery, is an obelisk designating the family lot of the late P. F. W. 
Peck, who was a well-known and wealthy citizen of Chicago. It is of a 
' dark-colored granite, plain, rich and massive. To the west is the beau- 
tiful memorial shaft, with broken top, heavily veiled, erected to that 
gallant soldier, Gen. Edward Greenfield Kansom, who died in the ser- 
vice of his country. His memorial stone tells the story of his soldier's 
career. On the pedestal is chiseled:— 



Charleston, Mo. 

Fort Donelson. 

Shiloh. 

Corinth. 

Champion Hills, Miss. 

Vicksburgh. 

Pleasant Hill, La. 



The monument to Geo. S. Bangs, the originator of the fast mail service 




Views in Rosehill Cemetery, Looking East Toward the Entrance, 



162 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

in this country, is one of the most unique and attractive in Bosehill. 
It is a massive tree, in gray stone, with top and several branches broken 
off ; near the base, in the opening of a tunnel, is seen the rear of a mail 
car. A massive granite block, some three feet square, marks the 
resting place of Gen. B. J. Sweet, who was commander of Camp Doug- 
las during the civil war. I: was " erected by his daughter, Ada." The 
monument to Mrs. H. 0. Stone is very interesting. It represents a lady 
reclining at full length on a couch and playing with her child. The 
latter lies on one arm of the mother, whose other arm is thrown back 
over her head. The figures are in the finest Italian marble, and are 
masterpieces. The Masons, Odd Fellows, Good Templars, Firemen's 
Benevolent Association, Typographical Union, St. Andrew's and St. 
George's Societies, Batteries A and B, and Bridges' Battery are among 
the benevolent and patriotic associations which are represented. The 
soldiers' monument is one of the most imposing and characteristic me- 
morials on the grounds. On the summit of the lofty shaft is a life-size 
figure of a federal soldier, with full accoutrements ; and on the faces of 
the shaft are bronze castings, each indicative of some phase of soldier 
life. The Egleston and Stanbro lot is noticeable for its elegant mon- 
umental piece, which consists of a square block of stone raised on a 
heavy pedestal, and croAvned with a life-size female figure, her eyes 
fixed upon the sod and in her hand a wreath of immortelles. This 
beautiful cemetery was dedicated in the presence of nearly 10,000 
persons, the corner stone being laid by the Masonic orders with all the 
impressive ceremonies peculiar to their organization. The stone, of 
Athens marble, bears the legend : " This stone was laid July 28, A. D. 
1859, A. L. 5859, by the Masonic Order. M. W. I. A. W. Buck, Grand 
Master." On July 11, 1859, the first funeral cortege entered the cem- 
etery, bearing the remains of Dr. J. W. Ludlam. Since that date over 
20,000 interments have taken place. Rosehill Cemetery Company 
was incorporated in 1859. The board of managers is composed of 
prominent citizens. Frederick Tuttle is president; Hon. Van H. Hig- 
gins, treasurer ; and Joseph Gow, secretary. The city office is at Room 
29, No. 159 LaSalle Street. 

Calvary Cemetery, the principal Catholic burying ground, is situ- 
ated about ten miles north of the City Hall on the lake shore. It was 
laid out in November, 1859, and down to the present time nearly 40,- 
000 interments have taken place. Among the distinguished dead in 
Calvary, Bishop Quartiers and Col. James A. Mulligan were perhaps the 
most prominent. The remains of the former lie in the vault, it never 



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yet having been decided where to bury them. The citizens of the city 
and state have just erected a befitting monument to the gallant soldier, 
Col. Mulligan. Handsome memorials have recently been placed on the 
family lots of M. and W. Devine, and of Chas. J. O'Neil, John D. Tully 
and Philip H. Murphy. The graves of Mrs. John Hogan, P. W. Snow 
and David Thornton are each surmounted by graceful monuments. 
Eichard M. Hooley has erected a costly family mausoleum of a unique 
southern design. The P. J. Sexton mausoleum is also rich and costly. 
The monumental sarcophagus for J. A. Wolford and wife is thft most 
elaborate memorial of the kind in the cemetery. The majority of the 
memorials, however, are of the plainer and simpler descriptions. The 
cemetery contains 100 acres. 

Graceland Cemetery lies north of the city, about two miles from Lin- 
coln Park, between the lake on the east and Clark Street on the west. 
It is about six . miles from the City Hall, and is reached by a broad 
drive along the lake shore through Lincoln Park and thence by North 
Clark Street, or by horse cars on Clark or State Street. The Chicago & 
Evanston Eailroad, in course of construction, when completed will 
carry passengers direct to the cemetery entrance. This beautiful city 
of the dead occupies 125 acres of land at a point where the shore of the 
lake rises into an upland of swelling ridges, whose undulating surface 
presents a varied and attractive site. It is laid out in broad and wind- 
ing avenues which are so arranged as to develop all the stronger of the 
landscape effects, which consist of sinuous lakes, clumps of woodland, 
stretches of laAvn and meadows, grassy depressions, parterres exquisite 
in coloring, ajl harmoni us, appropriate, and in keeping with the 
solemn purpose of the inclosure. Although a beautiful and picturesque 
spot in its primitive state, with its wealth of native forest trees and 
luxuriant foliage, vast sums of money have been expended in bringing 
Graceland to its present perfection. The sewerage system insures the 
thorough drainage of every part of the spacious grounds. The main 
sewer, leading to Lake Michigan, was constructed at a cost of over 
$10,000. The beautiful artificial gems of water — Lotus Pond, Willow- 
mere and Hazelmere — are supplied from living springs, and by a system 
of steam pumps water is carried through a net work of iron pipes to all 
parts of the cemetery. During dry seasons the grassy lawns and flower 
covered mounds are kept green and fresh by frequent and plentiful 
sprinklings. The avenues and drives have been macadamized, and 
expense and labor have not been spared to make Graceland one of the 
most attractive burying grounds in the country. The new depot of the 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 165 

Chicago &, Evanston Kailway stands at the eastern entrance of the cem- 
etery, and from its platform a fine view of the grounds is obtained. 
The depot itself is an attractive feature. It is a compact, one-storied 
frame building, with many suggestions of Swiss architecture in its 
steep, overhanging roofs, and in the breezy openness of its columned 
platform. It nestles in a dense grove of evergreens, which enclose it 
on all sides save that fronting the cemetery. It not only furnishes 
every convenience for passengers, in waiting and other rooms, but is 
sufficiently capacious to supply the cemetery company with required 
office accommodations. The road, when opened to traffic, will prove 
of the greatest value in furnishing a much-needed transportation on 
the line of its extension. The entrance to the grounds, at the junction 
of North Clark Street and Graceland Avenue, shown in the illustration 
on page 164, is a graceful piece of architecture of rough-finished gray 
stone. 

One peculiarity of Graceland is that it everywhere presents sug- 
gestive features, which, while not inharmonious with the purpose of a 
necropolis, are cheerful, quieting and restful. They mitigate the som- 
bre atmosphere which envelops always the resting place of the dead. 
Standing anywhere on the banks of the miniature lakes, there are seen 
in every direction landscapes of varied outlines, vegetation reflected in 
the peaceful mirror of the waters, all of which might be mistaken for 
the interior of an ornate park, were it not that here and there the glint 
ot a marble column is caught. In fact, the whole has a park-like 
appearance ; and in this direction there is developed a beautiful effort 
to relieve to the utmost possible extent the extra solemnity which usu- 
ally broods over places of sepulture. The glories of spring, and the 
rich fruition of summer are full of suggestions to the mourner who 
wanders through the shaded aisles, of a possible spring and summer 
which have no autumn nor winter. Here, too, may be seen what loving 
hands can do to surround the homes of the dead with expressive trib- 
utes of regretful remembrance by which even the grievous pangs of 
separation are ameliorated, the memories of dear ones tenderly pre- 
served, and much of the gloom of the grave dissipated. Many of the 
historic names of Chicago are to be found on the tombs of Graceland, 
and in the long list of lot owners. The remains of John Kinzie, the 
pioneer citizen of Chicago, find a resting place here, after several dis- 
interments and removals from one place to another. Col. John H. 
Kinzie was buried here in 1865. John H. Kinzie, Jr., who was killed 
at the taking of Fort Charles, White Kiver, June 18, 1862, sleeps at 



166 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

his father's side, and other members of this noted family occupy adja- 
cent graves. No stately monument marks their last earthly home ; but 
unpretentious headstones silently proclaim that they have long since 
ended the journey of life. Many members of the well-known Ogden 
family are buried in Graceland ; and Judge George Manierre, Justin 
Butterfleld, H. H. Magie, Walter Newberry, Alexander Fullerton, N. B. 
Judd, W. F. Coolbaugh, Dr. Daniel Brainard and E. G. Hall, all of whom 
were honored and revered citizens, lie beneath its hallowed sod. The 
remains of John Calhoun, the founder of the first newspaper in Chi- 
cago, rest here in peaceful silence. Near to the main entrance stands 
the monument to the late Eli B. Williams, a wealthy and respected 
citizen, who died in Paris, France, but whose remains came back to 
sleep in the city of his adoption. The monument is a lofty shaft of 
granite, surmounted by an emblematic figure indicative of the 
faith of the living, and the future of the dead. To the right is the lot 
of the Armour family, in which rests George Armour, a well-known 
merchant. A plain, granite column with an urnal top marks the spot, 
characterizing it with elegant simplicity. 

Strolling on the visitor encounters other graves, often of well-known 
citizens, as those of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Munger. A sightly shaft, 
impressive in dimensions and outlines, forty-three feet in height, is, in 
its severe plainness and simplicity, characteristic of the men 
whose memory it perpetuates. It is the monument of the Sherman 
family, whose head, Francis Cornwall Sherman, now resting within the 
shadow of this stern shaft, was the founder of the hotel bearing his 
name, and was thrice mayor of Chicago. A Corinthian column with 
fluted shaft, its entablature serving as the pedestal of a female figure 
bearing a cross and book, marks the last home of Azariah B. Palmer, late 
of the firm of Palmer, Fuller & Co. It is a handsome work in itself, and its 
effect is increased by the environment. A square shaft, some twenty- 
five feet in height, and bearing on its top a female figure — one of the 
most attractive works in Graceland — is reared over the grave of E. H. 
Haddock, one of Chicago's wealthy citizens. The Allan Pinkerton lot 
contains the newly-sodded grave of America's famous detective, and a 
plain headstone which marks the grave of Timothy Webster, one of 
Pinkerton's men, an Englishman, who was hanged as a spy by the Con- 
federates, in Bichmond, Va. One of the most conspicuous monuments 
in Graceland is a granite obelisk, some forty feet in height, without 
decoration of any kind, which marks the resting-place of Washington 
Smith, once a wealthy business man of Chicago. 



168 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

The massive memorial shaft of the '• Peabody of Chicago," Jona han 
Burr, is of Quincy granite. It is not as imposing as many others ; but 
Burr does not need granite or marble to perpetuate his memory. There 
is scarcely an educational or charitable institution in Chicago which 
does not possess a monument of him, in the nature of generous endow- 
ments more lasting than granite. In an open space, on a low mound of 
green, rises a tall granite column finished with a pointed, ornamental 
cap, at whose base rests Eli Bates, the philanthropist. The situation is 
a charming one, although there is a hint of isolation which is not in 
harmony with a life which was largely composed of close intimacy with 
humanity. 

On the smooth, velvety lawn, is the mausoleum of H. H. Taylor, 
formerly one of Chicago's leading citizens. It is a superb piece of 
mortuary architecture. The walls are of rough-finished stone. It is 
shown in an illustration on page 167. Five persons are now enclosed 
within its solid walls, or rather in the catacombs to which it leads. 
The Medill family lot contains the graves of W. H. Medill, of the Eighth 
Illinois Cavalry, who died of wounds received in battle ; of James C. 
Medill and of Samuel J. Medill, late managing editor of The Chicago 
Tribune. A plain but impressive monument rises above the spot. 

Perhaps the most elaborate and costly monuments in Graceland are 
those on the family lots of J. V. Farwell and William M. Hoyt. The 
former is of Scotch granite, capped with an urn, and from its massive 
dimensions is the most conspicuous memorial on the grounds. The 
Hoyt monument consists of a heavy granite base, supporting three fig- 
ures, emblematic of Faith, Hope and Charity. 

The lot of W. A. Fuller has a massive block of polished granite which 
serves as the pedestal for a female figure wrapped in a classical robe, 
standing with bowed head, the left arm resting gracefully on the right 
and the right hand holding stalks of wheat. The monument on the lot 
of T. M. Avery, one of Chicago's oldest citizens, has a massive pedestal 
from which rises a circular shaft, with an Egyptian capital. On this 
capital stands a female figure holding in her hands a trumpet, and gaz- 
ing far into the distance as if w r aiting for the dawn of the moment that 
will permit her to signal the resurrection. The lot of William Blair 
contains a chaste monument in the form of a tomb. It is massive, solid, 
with decorated frieze and pediments, and panels ample for the mortu- 
ary records of the future. That of G. T. Abbey, a granite column 
surmounted by a figure of " Glory." That of Samuel Allerton is shown 
in the accompanying illustration ; the two female figures represent 



MARQUIS' HAyTD-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 169 

Grief and Consolation. That of one of Chicago's oldest and most 
respected citizens, Philo Carpenter, is de ignated by a plain column of 
Italian marble. 

Among other lot owners, the names of many prominent people are 
found, and many of the lots are ornamented with beautiful memorials. 
Some of the most prominent of these are Seth Wadhams, Mayor Har- 
rison, Judge Drummond, N. K. Fairbank, Wirt Dexter, Joseph Medill, 
Keith Bros., Jerome Beecher and S. B. Cobb, L. J. McCormick, Albert 
Keep, T. W. Harvey, John De Koven, Henry W. King, Lorenz Bren- 
tano, Volney C. Turner, Daniel A. Jones, Edwin H. Sheldon, the heirs of 
the late Cyrus H. McCormick, Elisha Eldred, D. O. Shipman, S. D. Sur- 
dam, Chas. W. Sanford, 0. W. Potter, Hiram Wheeler, Frank Parmalee, 
A. F. Otto, Dr.^Byford, J. H. Dunham, E. W. Eoloson and H. H. Magie. 
The oldest monument in the cemetery is that of Daniel Thompson. 
It is a dark granite pentagonal shaft. 

Graceland was founded in 1861 by Thomas B. Bryan, and contained 
at first only eighty acres. The first interment took place on the 13th 
day of April, 1860, since which time about 40,000 persons have been 
buried there, the number exceeding that of any other cemetery in Amer- 
ica except Greenwood, near New York City. Graceland is controlled 
by Graceland Cemetery Company, of which Bryan Lathrop is president. 

By provision of the charter, ten per cent of the gross receipts from 
the sale of lots is set apart to form '" The Graceland Cemetery Improve- 
ment Fund," which is safely invested, and will draw compound interest 
until such time as the interest on the fund becomes available under the 
terms of the charter. This fund insures the perpetual maintenance and 
preservation of the cemetery. It is held and managed by the following 
Board of Trustees, who are themselves lot owners, and are among the 
ablest and most responsible men of Chicago, viz.: William Blair, J. W. 
McGennis, Daniel Thompson, Marcus C. Stearns, E. W. Blatchford, 
Hiram Wheeler, George C. Walker, Jerome Beecher, Edwin H. Sheldon, 
A. J. Averill, John De Koven and Henry W. King. 

The city office of the cemetery is at 115 Monroe Street, Montauk 
Block. 

Oak Woods Cemetery is located on the east side of Cottage Grove 
Avenue, at Sixty-Seventh Street, three and one-half miles south of the 
city limits. The plan of the cemetery was modeled after the famous 
Spring Grove Cemetery, at Cincinnati, and the grounds were laid out 
under the personal direction of Adolph Strauch, superintendent of that 
beautiful home of the dead. The design is on the lawn system, and 



170. MARQUIS' BAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

the grounds are divided into sections, each with mounds of various 
forms and sizes, and here and there are scattered shade trees and clus- 
ters of shrubbery. A superintendent's house, a chapel, four green- 
houses and an ample receiving vault, have been provided. Three beau- 
tiful artificial lakes, each from three to four acres in extent, have been 
completed, and a fourth is nearly finished. Oak Woods contains the 
graves of some of Chicago's oldest settlers, and of many prominent 
citizens. The unmarked grave of Jas. H. Woodworth, twice mayor of 
Chicago, and member of Congress, is found in a secluded spot. One of 
the most conspicuous monuments in the grounds is that rising above the 
grave of William Jones, an old settler and wealthy citizen. Other well- 
known names are those of Dr. C. E. Dyer and Charles Hitchcock. The 
latter was an eminent lawyer, and president of the last constitutional 
convention of Illinois. A plain granite monument marks the grave of 
Col. W. J. Foster, the geologist, and author of various works on the pre- 
historic races of America. The monument recently erected to the wife 
of Hon. Van H. Higgins is perhaps the most striking memorial in Oak 
Woods. A heroic figure of a soldier on guard, in pure white marble, 
looks down upon the graves of some sixty soldiers who were inmates of 
the old Soldiers' Home, and who died in that institution. At each of 
the four corners of the lot is a large cannon, placed there under the 
direction of Eobert T. Lincoln, secretary of war. In the southern por- 
tion of the cemetery are buried over 6,000 Confederate dead, Avho died 
prisoners at Camp Douglas. An occasional unpretentious headstone is 
the only record of the men who sleep beneath. The first interment in 
Oak Woods was made in 1864. The entire number of burials at the 
present time is nearly 17,000. The city office of the cemetery is at 
Boom 22 Union National Bank Building. Marcus A. Farwell is presi- 
dent of the Association. 

Mount Greenwood is one of the newest burying places, having been 
laid out as late as 1879. It is about eight miles south of the city limits 
and contains eighty acres. The land has a sandy, undulating surface 
and is dotted here and there with ancient forest trees. A heavy rustic 
fence completes the enclosure, and rustic seats have been placed at 
convenient points throughout the grounds. A large vault — said to be 
the largest in the state — has been constructed. But few burials have 
yet been made in Mount Greenwood, the number being about 550. 
The first interment was made April 28, 1880. The Association was 
incorporated July 26, 1879. 

Concordia Cemetery, nine miles west of the city, and two miles 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 171 

west of Oak Park, contains about fifty-eight acres. It was laid out in 
1871 and is the burial place of seven Evangelical Lutheran churches. 
Concordia is practically the successor of the Wunder, or German 
Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, just east of Graceland. About 10,000 
interments have taken place in Concordia. 

The German Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery is popularly called 
Wunder Cemetery, in honor of the well-known German divine, Eev. 
Henry Wunder. It was laid out in 1860, and contained only four and 
one-half acres. In 1866 it was increased to fourteen and one-half 
acres. But few burials are made in it now, all the lots having been 
taken twelve years ago. 

Waldheim Cemetery contains eighty acres. It was laid out in 1873 
and the first interment took place July 16, 1874. Nearly 7,000 burials 
have since been made, principally Germans. The grounds are well 
improved. The receiving vault has capacity for 500. There is also a 
chapel and a local office. The city office of the association is at 78 
Fifth Avenue. 

Forest Home Cemetery was laid out in 1877. It contains eighty 
acres. The site is a portion of the old Haase farm. It is about four 
and one -half miles from the city limits, on the Desplaines Kiver. 
About 1,000 interments have been made. 

St. Boniface Cemetery is the burying ground of the German Cath- 
olics. It is situated on Green Bay road, three miles north of the city 
limits. 

The Jewish Cemeteries of the city are generally burying places owned 
by the respective Jewish congregations, although some congregations 
lay their dead to rest in sections of the general burying grounds. The 
Kehilath Anshey Maarab Congregation Cemetery is situated about five 
miles north of the city, on the Green Bay road, and near Graceland. 
This congregation formerly had a burying ground in what is now 
a portion of Lincoln Park, but the bodies were disinterred and removed 
when the property was taken for park purposes. The general appear- 
ance of this cemetery is similar to that of Graceland. There are but 
few striking monuments, one of the most conspicuous being that 
erected by the Greenbaum Brothers over the graves of their parents. 
In the same locality are the cemeteries of the Hebrew Benevolent Soci- 
ety, established in 1855 ; the Chebrah Gemiluth Chasadim (association 
for charitable work); the Chebra Kadisha Ubikur Cholim, B'nai Sholom, 
all small in dimensions, containing but one acre each. The monuments 
and gravestones are generally plain and simple in design and execu- 



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tion, though there are a few exceptions. The grounds overlook the 
lake and are covered with a fine second growth of timber, and are gen- 
erally of a level character. Sinai and Zion congregations have a united 
body of lots in the center of the western portion of Eosehill. The monu- 
ments are generally tasteful in appearance, but still of a plain character. 
That over the grave of Mrs. S. Hyman, in the Sinai division, is perhaps 
the most elaborate of all. The cemeteries of the Beth Hemidrash Ha- 
gadol congregation (Eussian), the North Side Hebrew congregation and 
B'nai Abraham congregation are at Waldheim, ten miles west from the 
city, near Forest Home and Waldheim cemeteries (general burying 
grounds). The cemetery of the society of the Free Sons of Israel and 
that of the congregation of Ohabey Emunah are also in this locality. 
They occupy portions of the old Haase farm, formerly the property of 
Frederick Haase, and are favorably situated and well improved. 



"©he '^Religious S^nsfifufTons, 

THE CHURCHES AND THEIR PASTORS, AND THE OTHER 
RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS. 

FATHER Jacques Marquette, a Catholic priest, was among the first 
white men known to have visited this locality ; and the next was 
Rev. Claude Allouez, in March, 1676, more than two centuries ago. 
The next visit was made in 1699 by Revs. Pinet and Bineteau, one 
of whom, at least, resided here for some time. Then there is an inter- 
val of nearly a century, when the religious history of Chicago is 
resumed. Rev. Stephen Badin, said to be the first Catholic priest 
ordained in the United States, visited this point in 1796, and returned 
in 1822, when he baptized Alexander Beaubien, which was the first 
occurrence of the kind in the place. In 1825 the first Protestant min- 
ister made his appearance in the person of Rev. Isaac McCoy, a Bap- 
tist, who preached to the Indians the first sermon ever preached in 
Chicago, so far as can be learned from history or tradition. The first 
Sunday school in Chicago was organized in 1832, in which the venera- 
ble Philo Carpenter, who is still living, was an active participant. At 
the first quarterly meeting in 1833, Henry Whitehead was licensed to 
preach, and he is believed to be the first Chicago licentiate. During 
the development of the trading post into a great metropolis, the build- 
ing of churches has generally led in the march of improvement. 
After the great fire which annih'lated so many edifices devoted to 
church purposes, they rose again with magic celerity, and most of them 
came up in a splendor and strength unknown before. 

The First Baptist Church is the parent of a number other churches 
of that denomination in the city, which were founded by colonies sent 
out from the congregation of the First Church, and have, in many 
instances, outgrown it in membership. The building now occupied is 
a fine stone edifice at the corner of South Park Avenue and Thirty-first 
S'reet, and was erected in 1876 at a cost of $80,000. The history of 
the church is remarkable for its vicissitudes. It was organized by Rev. 
Allen B. Freeman, Oct. 19, 1833, with nineteen members, and services 
were for some years conducted in what was termed " Temple Church," 



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used by all the early denominations. The financial troubles of 1837 pre- 
vented the construction of another building, and a workshop was 
transformed into a house of worship for the congregation. In 1844 a 
brick building, with basement, Ionic portico of six columns, and spire 
112 feet high, was erected at the corner of Washington and LaSalle 
Streets. This was destroyed by fire in October, 1852, and a new 

building was 
erected on its 
site the succeed- 
ing year at a cost 
of $30,000. In 
1864 the ground 
was sold to the 
Chamber of Com- 
merce association 
for $65,000, of 
which $15,000 
was given to other 
Baptist churches 
in the city, and 
the house to Tab- 
ernacle Church, 
and a command- 
ing edifice was 
built, at a cost of 
$175,000, on 
Wabash Avenue 
near Hubbard 
Court. After the 
great fi r e the 
lecture room was 
used for relief 

purposes, over 12,000 meals being given in it. But it escaped 
the great conflagration only to fall by the lesser one of 1874, 
after which the present building was erected. Among the noted men 
who have held its pulpit are Bev. J. C. Burroughs, D. D., Bev. William 
Everts, D. D.,and Bev. Geo. C. Lorimer, D. D. The time of its greatest 
strength was in the administration of Dr. Everts, when it had over 
2,000 members. The present membership is 850, with 750 pupils 
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received into membership since the organization, about one-third of 
them by baptism. The pastor is Eev. P. S. Henson, D. D. 

The Second Baptist Church, corner of Monroe and Morgan Streets, 
ranks among the very largest in point of membership and seating 
capacity, and is probably the largest Baptist church in the country. 
The building is a plain, sombre -looking, but very commodious and du- 
rable brick edifice, GO by 110 feet, with needle tower and a bell. The 
auditorium is encircled by a gallery, and altogether will hold 1,800 
people. The walls and ceiling are handsomely frescoed. The large 
lecture room in the lower story will seat 600, and the small one 150. 
The class rooms, culinary department, etc., are also in this story. The 
membership numbers 1,200, and there are 1,250 pupils in the home and 
mission Sunday schools. The church was organized Aug. 14, 1843, as 
the Tabernacle Baptist Church, by members of the First Baptist Church, 
who separated from that congregation on the slavery question. They 
subsequently undertook a movement against secret societies, and 
expelled one of their members for being connected with the Odd Fel- 
lows. In 1864 the First Church, in disposing of its property at LaSalle 
and Washington Streets, retained the lot, which it sold to the Chamber 
of Commerce, and allotted the building to those of its members living 
on the West Side who joined the Tabernacle and formed the Second 
Church, and the building was removed to its present site. Under 
the able ministry of the present pastor, Eev. Wm. M. Lawrence, D. D., 
the church has prospered and largely increased its membership. 

Immanuel Baptist Church, Michigan Avenue near Twenty-third 
Street, is one of the prominent churches of Chicago. The building is 
perhaps the finest belonging to that denomination. The walls are of 
Illinois limestone and ornamented with Ohio freestone, the architect- 
ure being in the fifteenth century Gothic style. The toAver ends in a 
spire 216 feet high. The interior is artistically finished and richly fur- 
nished, some novelties being introduced among the accommodations 
usually found in a church auditorium. The pulpit and platform are 
remarkably unique in design. A Gothic arch above the platform, sur- 
mounted by a cross, is forty feet high. The emerald green curtain of 
silk chenille, which hangs in the arch, was woven to order in Glasgow, 
Scotland. The curtains hanging from the canopy over the plat- 
form surround the baptistery, and are drawn aside during baptism. 
The pews, arranged in semi-circle form, are of butternut and poplar, 
with black walnut ornaments and finish. The gallery, encircling 
the room, slopes down to the pulpit platform on either side. The 



176 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

vault of the ceiling is colored in blues, and the whole room is 
treated ecclesiastically in the Gothic style, copied in part from 
one of the chapels of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The seating 
capacity is about 1,800. There are anterooms, lecture rooms, Sunday 
school rooms and all other appointments requisite to a modern church 
structure. Immanuel Church proper, was organized May 10, 1881. 
It is the outgroAvth of Edina Place Church, founded in 1856, afterward 
removed to th^ corner of Wabash Avenue and Eighteenth Street, the 
name changing to "Wabash Avenue Church. In 1868 or '69 Wabash 
Avenue Church was removed to Michigan Avenue, the site now occupied 
by Immanuel Church, and took the name of Michigan Avenue Church. 
The building having been destroyed by fire in February, 1881, the 
congregation, with about 150 members from the First Baptist Church, 
organized Immanuel Church, and rebuilt the present church edifice at 
a cost of $70,000. Kev. Geo. C. Lorimer, D. D., of the First Church, 
who had been active in the movement, was called to the pastorate. 
Prior to this the names of Eevs. Kobert Boyd, E. G. Taylor, D. D., Sam- 
uel Baker, D. D., Jesse B. Thomas, D. D., F. M. Ellis and J. W. Curtis, 
D. D., appeared on the list of pastors. Immanuel Church was dedicated 
on Christmas Day, 1881. It is located in the midst of an attractive 
residence section, noted for its wealth and refinement. The member- 
ship now numbers over 600 with about 500 children in the Sunday 
school. Dr, Lorimer remains in charge. He ranks among the most 
noted orthodox ministers of the country. 

The Central Baptist Church was organized June 23, 1873, and 
reorganized Oct. 10, 1877, to receive some members and property of 
the North Church, when it assumed the name " Central." Services have 
been mainly conducted in the chapel, No. 290 Orchard Street, but a 
new building is in course of erection on Belden Avenue, on a lot 75 by 
125 feet. This building, which is shown in the accompanying illustra- 
tion, will cost about $40,000. The church has a membership of 225 ; 
has 330 children in its Sunday school, and 200 in an industrial school. 
Bev. C. H. DeWolf was the first pastor. Eev. E. O. Taylor, the present 
pastor, has occupied the pulpit since July 19, 1877. 

The Fourth Baptist Church, corner of Washington Boulevard and 
Paulina Street, is the outgrowth of a mission Sunday school on West 
Lake Street, near Bryan Place, and was originally called Union Park 
Church. The building is a plain frame with an unfinished spire. The 
main auditorium is neatly but plainly furnished, and there is a commo- 
dious lecture room in the basement. The membership is 450, with 450 



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pupils in its Sunday school, and 250 pupils in Trinity Mission Sunday 
school at Indiana and Lincoln Streets. Centennial and Western Avenue 
churches are offshoots of this congregation. During the pastorate of Rev. 
Florence McCarthy, from 1860 to 1863, a schism occurred, a number of 
members withdrawing and forming a separate church. The breach was 
measurably healed, however, and the congregations were united July 
8, 1874, under the present name. The pastor, Rev. J. Spencer Ken- 
nard, D. D., an able and popular divine, took charge Jan. 1, 1882. 

Centennial Baptist Church, corner of Jackson and Lincoln Streets, 
is the aggregation of several detached Baptist elements on the West 
Side. The building was erected by seceders from Union Park Church, 
who organized under the name of Ashland Avenue Church. When the 
breach was healed, a few who remained with the Ashland Avenue Church, 
were joined by some unaffiliated Baptists on the West Side, a new 
organization was effected, and the present name adopted. The edifice 
is a plain brick structure, Gothic in style, the main building 42x85 
feet, with a rear extension 26x50 feet for lecture and infant class 
rooms. The interior is neatly frescoed, and will seat 500 people. The 
pastors have been Revs. N. E. Wood, C. E. Hewitt, D. D., and A. H. 
Parker. Mr. Parker still occupies the pulpit. 

The Central Church of Christ (Christian;, corner of Indiana Avenue 
and Twenty-fifth Street, was formed by consolidation of the First and 
South Side Christian Churches, in August, 1882. The united congre- 
gations worshiped for a time in a building at the corner of Prairie 
Avenue and Thirtieth Street, removing to the present location Jan. 1, 
1883. The building is a frame, with stained glass windows, and has 
seating capacity for 500 persons. The membership, largest of the 
denomination in the city, is 160. The Sunday school has an enroll- 
ment of about 300 pupils. Rev. Henry Schell Lobingier is pastor. 

St. James' Church (Episcopal), at the corner of Cass and Huron 
Streets, is the oldest church of its denomination in Chicago. The 
building, which was erected in 1873, is a splendid structure. The width 
of transept, north and south, is 109 feet, and the depth of the nave 
173 feet. In the vestibule is a beautiful monument to the memory of 
those of the parish who died in the war. There are some handsome 
windows and mural brasses, and in the tower is a fine chime of bells, 
the gift of the Carter family. The number of communicants is about 
700. In the Sunday school there are between three and four hundred 
pupils, and the Bible; class for young men numbers more than one hun- 
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179 



Oct. iO, 1834, by Rev. Palmer Dyer, when the nnclens of a parish 
organization was formed by W. H. Egan, Dr. Philip Maxwell, Gordon S. 
Hubbard, John S. Kinzie and others. This service was held in the 
Presbyterian church at the invitation of the pastor, Eev. Jeremiah 
Porter. The organization as St. James' Church was effected in 1835, 
Eev. Isaac W. Hallam being the rector. Tippecanoe Hall, at the corner 
of Kinzie and Wolcott (now State) Streets, was occupied for a time but 
a building was 



erected at the cor- 
ner of Clark and 
Illinois Streets 
on two lots do- 
nated by Mr. Kin- 
zie, and was occu- 
pied March 26, 
1837, and form- 
ally dedicated by 
Bishop Philander 
Chase, June 25, 
1837. It was the 
first brick church 
edifice in Chica- 
go, and in the 
belfry was placed 
the first church 
bell brought to 
Chicago, and 
which had been 
first rung here on 
Christmas morn- 
ing, 1836. Twenty years 
handsome stone edifice at 





St. 

later, 



James' Episcopal Church. 

in 1857, the parish built a 



Cass and Huron Streets, at a cost, 
exclusive of ground and tower, of over $80,000. A rectory was erected 
at the same time. Subsequent enlargements and improvements brought 
the cost to nearly $200,000 at the time of the fire of 1871, when the 
whole was destroyed, only the monument above mentioned being saved. 
The vestibule, however, was sufficiently restored to be used as a chapel 
until the erection of the present edifice was commenced. Many dis- 
tinguished divines have held the pulpit of St. James. Rev. Robert 
Clarkson had been rector for seventeen years, when he was called to the 



180 MARQUIS' BAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

bishopric of Nebraska. Eev. J. H. Eyland, D. D., was rector for four 
years, during which the noble vestibule, tower and chapel were com- 
pleted in time to feed the conflagration. Eev. H. M. Thompson, now 
Assistant Bishop of Mississippi, was rector at the time of that calamity. 
Eev. Arthur Brooks succeeded, and was followed by Eev. Dr. Harris, 
now Bishop of Michigan. The present rector, Eev. Wm. H. Vibbert, 
D. D., succeeded Eev. Dr. Courteney, in January, 1883. Under his rec- 
torship the debt of $35,000 which rested on the parish was paid in 
April of that year, and the church was consecrated May 31 of the same 
year. A surpliced choir was introduced May 4, 1884, and the parish 
seems to have entered upon a new era of prosperity. 

Trinity Church (Episcopal) grew out of the desire of a number of 
members of St. James' parish to have a church located on the south 
side of the river. The entire territory of the south division, of the city 
was allotted to the new parish, and the church was organized Aug. 1, 
1843. It occupied a fine stone edifice in 1871, and lost it in the great 
fire. Nov 22, 1874, the present' handsome stone structure at the cor- 
ner of Michigan Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street was occupied. It is 
Gothic in style, and has seating capacity for over 1,000 persons. 
The church has a membership of 457, and the Sunday school an enroll- 
ment of more than 800, with an average attendance of over 600. The 
names of the late Bishop AVhitehouse and Eev. E. A. Holland, S. T. D., 
appear in the list of rectors. The parish contributes about $20,000 
annually to missions and charities. Among the organized agencies are 
St. Luke's Hospital Society and Trinity Guild. The present rector, 
Eev. L. S. Osborne, took charge Jan. 1, 1884. 

The Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, corner of Peoria Street 
and Washington Boulevard, is the cathedral church of the Episcopal 
see of Illinois. It was organized March 18, 1850, as the Church of the 
Atonement, with nineteen members. The first meetings were held in 
Temperance Hall, at the corner of Eandolph and Canal Streets, but in 
1851 the present location was secured. Eev. Dudley Chase, son of the 
late Et. Eev. Philander Chase, first bishop of the diocese of Illinois, 
was the first rector. On his resignation, in 1857, the property passed 
into the hands of Et. Eev. Henry J. AVhitehouse, successor of Bishop 
Chase in the see of Illinois, and by him the building was enlarged and 
beautified, and at first was known as the "Bishop's Church." He 
inaugurated the modified cathedral system of the American church, 
which now numbers some fifteen cathedrals, this church being, in 
1867, formally designated a cathedral, and so recognized by the dio- 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 181 

cesan convention. The Bishop appointed and gazetted Revs. J. H. 
Knowles, C. P. Dorset and Geo. C. Street, as canons. The building, 
having been freed from debt, Avas solemnly consecrated Dec. 10, 1879. 
It is a very unique stone structure in the extreme Gothic style, and is espe- 
cially attractive in the interior, having a beautiful altar of pure white 
marble and a handsome reredos. There is also a commodious brick 
building in the rear, intended for a " clergy house " and other purposes 
connected with the cathedral work. Canon Knowles, who faithfully 
administered the affairs of the congregation, and under whom the large 
surpliced choir of men and boys attained the great excellence in 
the choral rendering of the church service for which the cathedral is 
noted, resigned in May, 1884, to take charge of the new mission of St. 
Clement, on the South Side, which has been inaugurated under very 
promising auspices, Bishop McLaren is the present diocesan. 

Grace Church Parish (Episcopal) was organized May 19, 1851. 
Bev. Cornelius Swope, now assistant pastor of Trinity Church, New 
York, was the first rector. A church was built on the northwest corner 
of Dearborn and Madison Streets, seating about 300. Mr. Swope was suc- 
ceeded June 25, 1854, by Bev. Louis L. Noble, the well-known art 
critic, who remained only a year, and was succeeded June 9, 1856, by 
Bev. Jno. W. Clark. Under Mr. Clark's rectorship the church was 
removed to the corner of Peck Court and Wabash Avenue, and greatly 
enlarged. A chapel was also built on the rear of the lot. Mr. Clark 
remained until June 12, 1859. In July of that year Bev. Clinton 
Locke, D. D., the present rector, was called to the charge. There were 
then about eighty communicants. In 1863 a handsome parsonage was 
built in the rear of the church edifice. In July, 1864, the building was 
again enlarged. In 1867 the lot for the present structure on Wabash 
Avenue between Fourteenth and Fifteenth Streets was purchased, the 
Peck Court property sold, and the new church was finished, and opened 
on Easter Day, 1869. In May, 1876, a cyclone blew off the steeple and 
damaged the church to the amount of $14,000. In the summer of 
1882 the vestry purchased twenty-two feet north of the church, and 
on Easter Day, 1884, the whole remaining debt of the church, $20,- 
000, was paid. In January of the same year, Dr. Locke celebrated the 
twenty-fifth year of his rectorship and was made the happy recipient 
of many flattering testimonials of respect and affection, not only from 
his own congregation, but from his fellow citizens, his bishop and 
brother clergymen. In July, 1884, the church was thoroughly redec- 
orated and put in repair. It is a handsome stone edifice of French 



182 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

Gothic architecture, with uncompleted tower and spire. It is sixty-six 
feet wide and 130 feet long, with chapel in the rear, seats 1,000 per- 
sons, has about 600 communicants, a Sunday school of 800, and an 
industrial school of 250 children. It takes a very active part in the 
support of St. Luke's Hospital, which was founded by it. 

The Church of the Epiphany (Episcopal) was organized in the fall of 
1868, and the parish took possession of its first house of worship, on 
Throop Street between Adams and Monroe, on Epiphany Day, 1868. 
Eev. K. T. Sims was the first rector. The parish has about 110 fami- 
lies, with 375 communicants, and a Sunday school numbering about 
300 children and teachers. The parish owns the property on Throop 
Street and 100 by 150 feet on the southeast corner of Ashland Avenue 
and Adams Street, on which a large and permanent church edifice will 
be erected, the present building being wholly inadequate and unsatis- 
factory. The rector, Eev. Theodore N. Morrison, came to the charge 
in December, 1876. 

Christ Church (Eeformed Episcopal), at the southeast corner of Mich- 
igan Avenue and Twenty-fourth Street, was organized Nov. 1, 1855, 
and has grown from seven communicants to 575, with 1,000 pupils 
enrolled in its Sunday school. The edifice, which is of stone and has 
seating capacity for 1,000 persons, was erected in 1865, and has since 
been several times remodeled, and is now one of the most attractive 
places of worship in the city. The style is a simple Gothic, the west 
front presenting very happy effects of broken masses, and light and 
shade. There is a central porch, or vestibule, flanked on either hand 
by a tower; that on the northern corner being in campanile form, and 
■ rising to a height of 100 feet. The interior is finished in a very artis- 
tic manner, the roof open timbered, and the walls beautifully tinted, 
especially in the chancel. After the organization the pulpit was tem- 
porarily filled by various clergymen, but the first permanent rector was 
Eev. Charles Edward Cheney, who came to the church in March, 1860, 
and still holds the rectorship. The views of rector and people have 
always been decidedly "Low Church," or evangelical, and the refusal 
of the rector to use certain expressions in the baptismal office, which 
he believed to be contrary to the Word of God, led to a long contro- 
versy with Bishop Whitehouse. Dr. Cheney was tried and deposed 
from the ministry, but his trial and sentence were declared of no effect 
by the Supreme Court of the State, so that he is still, in the eye of the 
law, a presbyter of the Protestant Episcopal Church. His church 
refusing to give up their rector, pastor and people became for a time 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 183 

practically independent, and so remained till in December, 1873, 
Bishop G. D. Cummins founded the Reformed Episcopal Church. The 
new organization fell in exactly with the views of Christ Church, and 
on Dec. 2, 1873, Dr. Cheney was elected, and soon after consecrated, a 
bishop of the new church. Feb. 18, 1874, Christ Church was formally 
reorganized as a Reformed Episcopal Church. Rev. J. W. Farley is 
assistant minister. 

St. Paul's Church (Reformed Episeopal) was organized in 1873, 
with Dr. Samuel Fallows as its rector. After his election to the mis- 
sionary bishopric, the pulpit was occupied successively by various 
ministers. At the fourth general council of the Reformed Episcopa 
Church, held in Ottawa, Canada, in July, 1876, Dr. Fallows was elected 
bishop of the jurisdiction of the West and Northwest, and three years 
later again resumed the rectorship of St. Paul's, in connection wi.th his 
duties as bishop. The membership of the church numbers 460, and of 
the Sunday-school about 250. The new church edifice is on the corner 
of Adams Street and Winchester Avenue. It is one of the most beau- 
tiful churches on the West Side. It will accommodate 800 people. 
The interior is beautifully finished. The building 'formerly occupied 
was on the corner of Washington Boulevard and Carpenter Street. 

Grace Church (Evangelical Lutheran) was organized Sept. 3, 1882. 
It occupies a portion of its unfinished building at Chicago Avenue and 
Franklin Streets, which has seating capacity for 400 people. It has a 
splendid memorial window of stained glass, forty-four and one-half 
feet high and containing 412 square feet, and, with two smaller ones, 
bearing the names of Melchior Muhlenberg, founder of American 
Lutherism, and of others prominent in the church. The number of 
members is seventy, and of Sunday school pupils 200. The pastor, Rev. 
Lee M. Heilman, was the organizer of the church. 

The First Congregational Church, corner of Washington Boulevard 
and Ann Street, is the oldest Congregational Church in the city. It 
was instituted May 22, 1851, the membership being at first composed 
of Presbyterians who withdrew from that denomination on the slavery 
issue, in which the church afterward took a prominent part. It had 
several removals and was twice burned out before settling in its present 
commodious edifice. A church building erected in 1868 was partially 
destroyed by fire, and was rebuilt, the side walls being used in the 
present structure, which is a massive stone edifice, plain Gothic in 
style, and cruciform. It is 165 feet deep, and the extreme width of the 
transept is 100 feet. The interior decoration is artistically elegant, the 



184 MARQUIS' BAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

finish being of black walnut and oak. The nave and transept contain 
14,000 square feet, the roof being a clear span, and, with the gallery, 
seats over 2,000 people. The three large triangular windows contain 
elaborate allegorical ornamentation in stained glass. The front window 
represents the firmament, having numerous stars among its artistic 
tracery, and bearing appropriate inscriptions. One of the transept 
windows represents the crucifixion, and the other the resurrection, 
each having suitable inscriptions and emblems. The pastor's study is 
on the main floor. The spacious lecture, Sunday school, class, library 
and dining rooms, and the culinary department, are all in the basement, 
and very conveniently arranged and completely furnished. The infant 
class room is a model, the seats being placed like those of an amphi- 
theater. Immediately after the great fire the building was used for a 
time as the headquarters of the city government. This church is inde- 
fatigable in religious and philanthropic work. It sustains several 
branch churches, a mission school, and two industrial schools. It has 
received 2,948 persons into membership since its organization, and 
now has a membership of 1,309. Kev. W. W. Patton, D. D., was pas- 
tor for over eight years, including the period of the war, during which 
the church was active in support of the Union cause, sending sixty- 
nine of its members to the army. The present pastor, Kev. Edward P. 
Goodwin, D. D., was installed Jan. 10, 1868. 

The New England Church (Congregational), corner of Dearborn 
Avenue and Delaware Place, was formally instituted June 15, 1853. 
The building was erected on the site of one built by the church in 
1865, and destroyed by the great fire. It is an elegant cruciform 
structure of stone, and contains memorial stones from Delft Haven, 
Scrooley and Plymouth, and a stone baptismal font from Scrooley. It 
cost about $150,000, and was completed in the winter of 1875. The 
church has received about 1,000 members since its organization, and 
now has about 475 members, and 900 pupils in its Sunday schools. 
Lincoln Park Congregational Church was built up by it, and it has just 
expended some $13,000 in erecting a mission chapel on Sedgwick 
near Blackhawk Street. Eev. Leander T. Chamberlain entered the 
ministry as pastor of this church, and remained in charge about eight 
years. Rev. Arthur Little, the present pastor, was installed early in 
1878. 

Union Park Congregational Church, corner of Ashland Avenue and 
Washington Boulevard, has 830 members, with 1,300 pupils in its 
Sunday schools. The building, which was completed and dedicated in 



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"is-i^ ;Lr it r; h edifices * *■ -* - 

dressed stone, and cost over ^200 00 Tne n" ^ ^ ° f r °^ 
with an extensive gallery rivin*Y/\- nave ly a » amphitheater, 
basement contains a sp^ouTZd ^ ™ ty ° f 2 ' 200 - ^he 

-ts for 1,000 pec*J^^^^ Tf ^ **"• «* 
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is 175 feet high. 

The church was 

organized May 

22, I860, by 

the faculty of 

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the pulpit was 

for some years 

occupied b y 

professors from 

that institution. 

Soon after its 

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mission Sunday 

school, which 

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1858, united 

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The present pastor, Rev. FredeSct A ^ T ^ te ^ *«* 

20, 1879. ^edenck A. Noble, D. D., took charge April 

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186 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

organ, about $150,000. It has a frontage of 110 feet, and a depth of 
160 feet. The main auditorium, which is finished in black walnut 
throughout, seats 1,400 persons ^comfortably. The rear portion of the 
building, containing lecture room, Sunday school rooms, committee 
room, cloak room, parlor, pastor's study and janitor's apartments, is 
divided into three stories. It was occupied for the first time on July 
4, 1875. The minarets formerly on the church will soon be replaced 
by more appropriate ornaments. The church membership numbers 
over 700, and the Sunday school has over 1,100 pupils. The church 
is noted for the excellence of its choir. It is located in one of the best 
residence portions of the city. It sustains a prosperous local mission 
church, and in part a mission church and school. The pastor is Eev. 
Henry M. Scudder, D. D., a minister of national reputation. He has 
been in charge since Nov. 19, 1882. 

Tabernacle Church (Congregational), corner of Morgan and Indiana 
Streets, was a mission school of the First Congregational Church, and 
was formally organized as a church Oct. 9, 1866. The building is a 
plain brick structure, with seating capacity for 1,200 people. The 
auditorium was recently raised, and a lecture room built underneath. 
The church has 468 members, and the Sunday school 1,200. Becom- 
ing burdened with debt some years ago, the church Avithdrew from the 
Congregational Association for a time, but returned after a large part 
of its obligations was cleared off. Eev. F. E. Emerich is the pastor. 

Lincoln Park Congregational Church, corner of Garfield Avenue and 
Mohawk Street, was originally a mission school of the New England 
Church, and was organized as a church June 25, 1867. The building 
is a plain but substantial structure, erected at a cost of $30,000, of 
which the late Col. Chas. G. Hammond gave $14,000. The member- 
ship is 342. Eev. Burke T. Leavitt is pastor. 

Central Church, in Central Music Hall, is an independent congrega- 
tion, established in 1877, in support of the ministry of Eev. David 
Swing. This famous divine is a native of Cincinnati, of German 
descent ; was graduated from Miami University in 1852, and had spent 
less than a year in the study of theology when he returned to the uni- 
versity as its professor of Latin and Greek, a position he held for thir- 
teen years, preaching occasionally. His first appearance in Chicago 
was in 1866, as pastor of the Westminster Church, then New School 
Presbyterian, and when the Fourth Presbyterian Church was formed, 
in 1870, after the reunion of the " schools," by the consolidation of 
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School, lie became pastor of the united congregations. When the 
great fire swept over the North Side, he lost the hoarded results of 
years of literary labor, and with his wife and daughter and many of his 
parishioners spent the night of October 9th on the open prairie. He 
immediately undertook the reorganization of his scattered flock, and 
preached for a year in Standard Hall, and then in McVicker's Theater 
until January, 1874, when, the church having been rebuilt, he returned 
to his pulpit. But the catholicity of his views, and the frankness, elo- 
quence and force with which he gave them utterance, had commanded 
wide public attention, and often attracted larger congregations than 
could be accommodated. Some of his liberal theological opinions had 
been warmly controverted by ministers of the same denomination, and 
an intellectual contest was inaugurated which excited intense interest 
in religious circles throughout the country. Arraigned on the charge 
of heretical teaching, his trial was a cause celebre, in which he added 
largely to the area and splendor of his reputation as a great theologian 
and orator. He was acquitted, and continued his' pastoral relations to 
the Fourth Church until December, 1875, when he resigned and began 
preaching in McVicker's Theater. In 1877 the present congregation 
was organized, with a guarantee fund of $50,000, and Central Music 
Hall was engaged for Sunday services. The church has 550 members, 
and an aggregate of 1,000 pupils in three Sunday schools, located on 
West Madison and South Halsted Streets and North Avenue respect- 
ively. The singing is congregational. Large as the hall is, it is always 
thronged before the hour for service, and hundreds are often turned 
away unable to find even standing room. 

The People's Church is an independent organization formed in 
1881, and holding services every Sunday in McVicker Theater. It seeks 
to "unite all in the great law and duty of love to God and man," and 
welcomes to its fellowship all, of whatever faith, who are in sympathy 
with its spirit and work. It was founded by Kev. H. W. Thomas, D. D., 
a prominent minister of the Methodist denomination, who was succes- 
sively pastor of Park Avenue, First and Centenary Methodist Churches, 
and was cited before the conference while occupying the pulpit of the 
latter church, and tried and expelled for heretical opinions regarding 
future punishment and the nature of the atonement. Pending these 
proceedings he preached to the people at large, and at the time of his 
expulsion his work had grown to such dimensions that he could not 
conscientiously give it up. Hence, the organization of the People's 
Church, and the continuation of weekly services in the theater, the 



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spacious auditorium of which is always so crowded on such occasions, 
and hundreds have so often to be turned away, that arrangements are 
being concerted for a larger hall to accommodate the audiences. The 
Sunday school, with over 200 pupils, is conducted in the Third Unita- 
rian Church, corner of Monroe and Laflin Streets. Dr. Thomas is a 
fine theologian and a pleasing speaker, of very sympathetic address, 
his own liberal but earnest faith commanding the attention and respect 
of his hearers, whatever their belief. 

Chicago Avenue Church (Independent), corner of Chicago and 
LaSalle Avenues, was originally a mission of the First Congregational 

Church, but was 
organized as a 
separate con- 
gregation in 
1858. The 
building, which 
was finished in 
1875, at a cost 
of $70, 000, cov- 
ers 100 x 109 
feet of ground, 
is 60 feet high 
to the eaves and 
has a mansard 
roof. It is a red 
brick edifice 
with stone trim- 
mings, and has 
a circular bell 
tower at the 
southeast cor- 
ner, at the base 
to an iron stairway leading to 
the auditorium, and double doors opening into the lower story. There 
are three other entrances. The auditorium, including gallery , seats 2,000 
persons. It is substantially finished in contrasting woods, excellently 
lighted and ventilated, and ornamented with artistic frescoing. Two 
Bible class rooms in the basement seat respectively 100 and 200, and 
the lecture room about 600. The membership is about 400. The 
Sunday school is the largest in the city, having about 1,500 pupils. 




Chicago Avenue Church. 

of which is the main entrance, admittin 



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The church is popularly known as "Moody's Church." Much of the 
earlier portion of the now famous evangelist's career was devoted to 
work for this church. Under his labors the church membership reached 
300, and that of the Sunday school 1,000. When the church build- 
ing, erected on Illinois Street in 1863 at a cost of $20,000, was de- 
stined in the great conflagration, his efforts aided largely in raising 
funds for the present structure. Rev. Charles A. Blanchard, president 
of Wheaton College, has supplied the pulpit occasionally since March 
1, 1883, and regularly since September of that year. 

The First Methodist Episcopal Church is the oldest church organi- 
zation in Chicago. It is the lineal descendant of a congregation formed 
in June, 1831, by Jesse Walker, presiding elder of the " Chicago mission 
district " of the Illinois conference, and Eev. Stephen E. Beggs. Elder 
Walker, who was " superannuated" in the winter of 1834-35, has been 
well styled " the apostle of the Northwest." The first house of worship 
built by the church was a small frame, erected in 1834 at the corner of 
North Water and North Clark Streets. In 1838 the building was 
moved across the river on scows, and located at the corner of Clark and 
Washington Streets, the site occupied by the present building. In 
1857 the church obtained a charter and adopted the plan of building 
which it has since pursued, viz.: erecting a business block, and assign- 
ing the lower story to mercantile purposes for revenue to be devoted to 
the support of the church and the aid of other churches, and prepar- 
ing the upper stories as a place of worship. Up to the time of the great 
fire, over $70,000 had been contributed to other churches of the 
denomination in Chicago from this source. Since that time over 
$120,000 more have been distributed in the same way. It requires 
some sterling qualities in a church membership to thus sacrifice the 
outward appearance of their house of worship for the general good of 
the cause. The present large four-story stone front building, known 
as Methodist Church Block, was erected at a cost of $120,000. It has 
seven business or store rooms on the ground' floor, and about fifteen 
rooms for offices above. The portion reserved for church purposes is 
on the third floor. The auditorium, with the gallery, has a seating 
capacity of 1,200. There are also lecture and class rooms and pastor's 
study on the same floor. The membership is about 120, with 100 in 
the Sunday school. Many of the officers of the church have held their 
positions for more than a quarter of a century. The present pastor 
is Rev. R. M. Hatfield. 

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190 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

Morgan, is one of the leading churches in the city. It was organized 
in 1842, and then known as the Canal Street Methodist Episcopal 
Church. There were two changes of location, the last one being to 
settle in the present commodious edifice, which was commenced 
in 1866, the centenary of American Methodism, from which the 
church took its present name. The lecture room was occupied Feb. 
17, 1867, and the building was completed the following year, at a cost 
of $75,000. It is an imposing stone structure, of Gothic-like archi- 
tecture, ornamented with minarets. The body of the church, with a 
gallery on three sides, will comfortably seat 1,200 persons. The inte- 
rior finish is in black walnut. There are large parlor, lecture, study 
and other rooms in the basement. The number of members is about 
700, and of pupils in the Sunday school about 600. Wide public 
attention was attracted to Centenary Church in 1880, by the charges 
of heresy brought against its pastor, Eev. H. W. Thomas, whose trial 
and expulsion from pastorate and ministry created intense interest in 
church circles. Among the prominent ministers who have held the 
charge were Eevs. T. M. Eddy, D. D., F. D. Hemenway, C. H. Fowler, 
Robert Bentley, Charles Shelling, E. M. Hatfield, J. 0. Peck, S. H. 
Adams and H. W. Thomas. The present pastor is Eev. O. H. Swift. 

Grace Church (Methodist Episcopal), corner of North LaSalle and 
White Streets, was organized in 1847 as the "M. E. Society of Indiana 
Street Chapel," and in June, 1863, adopted the present name at the 
suggestion of the ladies' society, which had raised most of the money 
necessary to build a new house of worship for the congregation. A 
building at the corner of Chicago Avenue and LaSalle Streets, costing, 
with furnishings, over $90,000, was destroyed by the fire, but sixty 
days afterward services were held in a temporary frame erected on the 
ruins, and arrangements for rebuilding were started. The present site 
was determined on ; the building was commenced in 1872, and in May, 
1873, was partially finished and occupied, but the front was not com- 
pleted till 1877. It is a plain Gothic structure, with gable front, and 
cost about $100,000. It will comfortably seat about 1,200 people. 
The interior wood finish is black walnut. The parsonage cost about 
$4,000. The church membership numbers 380, and that of the Sun- 
day school 930. Among the prominent names connected with its his- 
tory are those of Drs. Bugbee, Tiffany and Felton. The present pastor, 
Eev. Wm. Fawcett, entered upon his duties Oct. 16, 1881. 

Langley Avenue Church (Methodist Episcopal), corner of Langley 
Avenue and Thirty-ninth Street, was organized March 7, 1869, as 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 191 

Oakland Methodist Episcopal Church. Its name was thrice changed, 
the last time in 1875 to the present title. It was removed to 
the present location in August, 1871. The building is a neat frame 
edifice, with capacity for 500 in the main auditorium, and handsome 
lecture, class and library rooms and study below. The windows of the 
nave are of stained glass, and the ceiling is prettily frescoed. The 
organ and choir occupy an alcove in the rear of the pulpit. The cost, 
including ground, was about $22,000. Among the pastors have been 
Eevs. C. G. Truesdell, Lewis Meredith, W. C. Willing and T. C. Clen- 
dening. The present pastor is A. C. George. 

Western Avenue Church (Methodist Episcopal), corner of Western 
Avenue and Monroe Street, dates back to 1866. The building is 
a many - gabled Gothic 
structure, unique and ele- 
gant in design, with four 
towers, in the bases of 
which are the entrances. 
The street fronts are of 
pressed brick with brown 
stone trimmings. The 
interior is 91 X 108 feet, 
and is divided into two 
rooms, viz., the main 

auditorium and the lect- Western Avenue M. E. Church. 

ure and Sunday school room. The former is an amphitheater, with 
bowled floor and circular pews, and will seat 800 persons. There is a 
broad gallery, under which are class rooms. All the rooms can be 
thrown into one by means of sliding doors, giving an auditorium with 
comfortable seating capacity for 1,600. The parlors are in the base- 
ment story, and the pastor's study in the southeast corner. The total 
cost, with organ, is about $35,000. The church has about 300 mem- 
bers, and is very active in all branches of its work. The pastor, Kev. 
W. H. Burns, took charge in December, 1883. 

Park Avenue Church (Methodist Episcopal), corner of Park Avenue 
and Kobey Street, had its inception in prayer meetings held in 1858 
among some Methodist families in the neighborhood. It was first 
established as Park Avenue Mission, in a building erected by the 
church extension society in 1861. The present building was erected 
in 1865. at a cost of about $10,000, and on occupying it assumed the 
present title. Among the prominent pastors have been Revs. J. H. 




192 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

Bayliss, W. H. Thomas, N. H. Axtell and S. McChesney. The building 
is unpretentious but serviceable, and will seat 900 people. The church 
has 300 members, and 600 pupils enrolled in its Sunday school. West- 
ern Avenue and Fulton Street Churches have grown out of a mission 
school established by this church. The house, which escaped the fire, 
was used for a time as a distributing station by the Relief and Aid 
Society. The present pastor is Eev. S. M. Davis. 

Trinity Church (Methodist Episcopal), Indiana Avenue near Twenty- 
fourth Street, is an offshoot of the First Church. It was born of a 
mission Sunday school, and began life on its own account April 10, 
1864, in a frame building on Indiana Avenue and Twenty-first Street. 
The present edifice was commenced in November, 1870. The confla- 
gration of the following year delayed the work. The lecture room was 
occupied in January, 1872, but the main auditorium was not opened 
for services until March 12, 1875. The cost, including ground, was 
$142,540. It is one of the handsomest church edifices in the city, 
both for architectural appearance and interior finish. The beautiful 
baptismal font is a memorial gift of the widow of Dr. Thomas M. Eddy. 
It has a membership of nearly 500. Its present pastor is F. M. Bristol. 

The First Presbyterian Church is located at the corner of Indiana 
Avenue and Twenty-first Street. After the fire of 1871 Calvary 
Church, which had commenced the erection of the building, was united 
with the First Church, the edifice being completed by the united con- 
gregations. It is a handsome brick structure, 84X150 feet, fifty feet 
high to the eaves, and 100 feet to the ridge of the roof, and has a spire 
260 feet high — the tallest church spire in the city. It is finished 
throughout in hard wood, principally black walnut, has seating capac- 
ity for 1,100, and cost, including the ground, $165,000. The First 
Presbyterian is one of the pioneer churches of Chicago. It was organ- 
ized with twenty-six members, June 26, 1833, by Eev. Jeremiah Por- 
ter. The first building was a frame at the corner of Lake and Clark 
Streets, which was opened with services Jan. 1, 1834. This was 
removed to the corner of Clark and "Washington Streets, and after 
being twice enlarged was superseded by a brick edifice 65X100 feet. 
In 1855 the house and ground were sold, and a fine new building 
erected on Wabash Avenue, between Van Buren and Congress Streets, 
and occupied in the fall of 1856. The cost was $131,000 for the 
house and lot. A brick chapel was erected in 1864 on Griswold Street, 
south of Van Buren, for the use of the railroad mission founded by the 
church. In 1865 a large brick chapel was erected adjoining the church, 




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194 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

for Sunday school and church purposes. All was swept away by the 
fire of 1871. inflicting a loss of nearly $200,000. The church has a 
grand record of Christian work in the success of its missions. It sus- 
tains the Railroad Chapel and Mission Avhich occupies a house on State 
Street south of Fourteenth that cost $70,000, and has an average 
school attendance of 500. It founded Foster Mission on the West 
Side, the Sands Mission on the North Side, the Archer Avenue Mission 
and the Indiana Street school. There are many names of note con- 
nected with its history, among them that of the founder, Eev. Jeremiah 
Porter, still living in Detroit ; Eev. John Blatchford, of New York ; Rev. 
Flavel Bascom, who was president of the first anti-slavery meeting 
held in Chicago ; Rev. Harvey Curtis, Rev. Z. M. Humphrey, Rev. Ar- 
thur Mitchell, and others who have left the impress of their labors on 
its development. The membership is over 750. The pastor, Rev. 
John H. Barrows, D. D., is noted for his ability, energy and zeal. He 
is an eloquent preacher, and besides his regular pastoral labors, he 
preaches to large throngs on Sunday evenings in Central Music Hall. 

The Second Presbyterian Church, corner of Michigan Avenue and 
Twentieth Street, has a membership numbering 735, and nearly 1,000 
pupils in its two Sunday schools. It supplies officers for the Burr mis- 
sion school, supports an industrial school for girls during winter, and 
has numerous active organizations for" missionary and charitable work. 
The building, in the English- Gothic style, covers 109^X1 65 feet of 
ground, and is built of "rock-faced prairie stone, except the clear- 
story, which is of wood. The " Armour memorial tower " is a massive 
stone tower and spire reaching 200 feet above the ground, and built at 
the cost of Mrs. Barbara Armour, widow of the late George Armour, as 
a memorial of her deceased husband. The tower is pure Gothic, and 
has a spacious belfry with a cathedral-toned bell, weighing, with the 
mountings, three tons, the gift of the children of Mr. Armour. The 
interior is elegantly finished throughout in black walnut, the pulpit 
exhibiting some fine carving. The main audience room is 70X85 feet, 
and seats about 1,500, with the gallery which extends all around it, 
and the short second gallery in the east front. The rear portion of the 
building on Twentieth Street is two stories in height, and has a lecture 
and Sunday school room 38X58, with gallery, library, study, etc. The 
church was organized June 1, 1842, by a colony of twenty-six mem- 
bers of the First Presbyterian. It occupied four different locations 
before settling in the present site, the last of the four being a hand- 
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MARQUIS' BAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 195 

year the membership of Olivet Church was added to that of the Second 
Church. Kev. Robert W. Patterson, D. D., the first pastor, occupied the 
pulpit for thirty-one years. The present pastor, Rev. Simon J. Mc- 
Pherson, D. D., was installed May 6, 1874. 

The Third Presbyterian Church, corner of Ashland and Ogden Ave- 
nues, has the largest membership in the city, and it is said to be the 
third largest Protestant church in the country, surpassed only by 
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, and Brooklyn Tabernacle. It has nearly 
2,200 members, and has established three churches out of its congre- 
gation, viz. : Reunion, Westminster and Campbell Park. It has a Sun- 
day school library of over 1,000 volumes, and sustains a Sunday school 
of 850 pupils besides Noble Street and Foster missions, making a grand 
total of nearly 2,000 pupils. The church was organized July 18, 1847, 
with thirty-five members. A small frame building that stood in a corn- 
field on Union between Washington and Randolph Streets, was occu- 
pied for more than ten years. In 1850 a number of members withdrew 
on the question of fellowship with slaveholders, and organized the 
First Congregational Church. From 1860 to 18G9, under the pastoral 
charge of Rev. Arthur Swazey, D. D., over 500 persons were admitted, 
and a debt of $45,000 nearly extinguished. June 13, 1870, the pres- 
ent pastor, Rev. Abbott E. Kittredge, D. D..,was called from the Eleventh 
Street Presbyterian Church, New York City, and under his administra- 
tion the elegant building which was destroyed by fire Oct. 9, 1884, 
was purchased, and occupied in 1877. The church edifice was at once 
rebuilt. Dr. Kittredge resigned the pastorate, in 1886, and Dr. With- 
row took charge in January, 1887. 

The Fourth Presbyterian Church, corner of Rush and Superior 
Streets, is one of the noted churches of the city. It is the result of a con- 
solidation consummated Feb. 6, 1870, between the North (Old School) 
and the Westminster (New School) Churches. The former was organ- 
ized Aug. 6, 1848, and the latter Sept. 18, L855. The present building 
was erected on the site of the one occupied at the time of the great 
fire, in which not only was the church building lost, but the homes of 
490 of its 500 members. It is a modest stone edifice, Gothic in style, 
and the interior is finished and furnished in a substantial and comfort- 
able manner. The church has about 500 members, and the Sunday 
school about 360. It supports a mission school in Home Street with a 
membership of 675. Rev. David Swing was pastor of this church at 
the time of his celebrated trial for heresy, but withdrew from it 
although acquitted of the charge. Rev. Herrick Johnson, D. D., LL. D., 



196 MARQUIS* HAND-BOOK OP CHICAGO. 

resigned the pastorate July 1, 1884 (having been in charge over three 
years), to accept a professorship in the N. W. Theological Seminary. 

The Fifth Presbyterian Church, corner of Indiana Avenue and Thir- 
tieth Street, was organized Jan. 15, 1868, and took its present name 
June 24, 1870, when the Twenty-eighth Street and South Presbyterian 
Churches were consolidated with it. The church edifice is a T-shaped 
brick structure, neatly and comfortably furnished, and seats between 
400 and 500 people. There is a very pleasant lecture room in the 
south wing, and a library and study in the north wing. The member- 
ship numbers 262. The pastor, Eev. W. G. Woodbridge, was formally 
installed in January, 1884. He is a native of Baton Kouge, La., a grad- 
uate of Princeton College, New Jersey, and of the Columbia, S. C, 
Theological Institute. 

The Sixth Presbyterian Church, corner of Oak and Vincennes Ave- 
nues, was organized in 1875. In 1872 a colony from the Ninth Pres- 
byterian Church organized Grace Church, but after about three years 
a reunion was effected, and the reunited churches reorganized under 
the present name. The building was erecied at a cost of nearly $20,- 
000. It has seating capacity for about 850. The church membership 
numbers over 450. Rev. Henry T. Miller was the first pastor of the 
reunited congregation. He remained in charge for seven years, when 
he resigned, and was succeeded by the present pastor, Eev. John H. 
Worcester, Jr., who was installed Feb. 13, 1883. 

The Eighth Presbyterian Church, at the junction of Robey Street 
and Washington Boulevard, originated in a neighborhood prayer meet- 
ing among Presbyterian families in 1864. It was organized December 
20, of that year, with twenty-five members, and built a plain wooden 
chapel, which was removed two years later, and the present tasteful 
frame structure erected in its place. It has a belfry, surmounted by a 
graceful steeple. The bell is named " The Children's Bell," having 
been paid for mainly by the pupils of the Sunday school. The build- 
ing has seating capacity for about 650. The church membership is 
609, and that of the Sunday school about 700. The " Onward Mis- 
sion," at the intersection of Indiana Street and North Hoyne Avenue, 
was established by the church Nov. 1, 1868, and is maintained by it 
with a Sunday school membership of 250. The church has a fine 
library and reading rooms. The pastor is Rev. Thomas Edward Green, 
a young, eloquent and very popular preacher. 

Jefferson Park Presbyterian Church, corner of West Adams and 
Throop Streets, fronts toward the beautiful park from which it takes 



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its name. The church edifice and chapel in the rear occupy a lot 
77x150 feet. The building is of red pressed brick with stone trim- 
mings, built in the Gothic style of architecture. The entrances are 
adorned with polished Scotch granite columns. A handsome spire and 
corner towers surmount the whole. The interior is arranged with the 
pews in amphitheater style, all the aisles radiating from the pulpit. 
The walls and ceiling are elaborately frescoed, and light is admitted 
by large Gothic stained glass windows. The seating capacity is 1,000, 
including the gallery. The building completed, with its furniture, cost 
over $40,000. The membership of the church is about 350, and of 
the Sunday school 220. The congregation was an offshoot from the 
Reformed Presbyterian Church, and was organized Jan. 31, 1867, with 
Eev. Robert Patterson, D. D., as its first pastor. Subsequently Rev. 
Francis L. Patton was pastor for six years, during which the present 
edifice was built. The present pastor, Rev. Thomas Parry, came to the 
charge in January, 1884. He is a native of Wales, but educated in the 
United States, and is a graduate of Princeton College and seminary. 
St. Mary's Church (Catholic), Wabash Avenue and Eldridge Court, 
was organized in May, 1833, by Rev. John Mary IrenaBus St. Cyr, who 
was appointed for the purpose by Bishop Rosetti, of St. Louis, April 
17th of that year. He arrived here May 1, said his first mass May 5, 
and administered his first baptism May 22, and in October following 
dedicated to the uses of his church the first building erected in Chi- 
cago for a house of worship. It was located on Lake Street, and was a 
plain wooden structure, 25X35 feet, and its belfry contained the first 
church bell heard in the settlement. After two removals, the substan- 
tial brick occupied ia 1871 was burned, when the present edifice was 
purchased from the Unitarian denomination, and subsequently under- 
went some remodeling and improvement. It is a very substantial stone 
structure, comfortably and durably finished and furnished, and has 
seating capacity for about 800 people. May 27, 1883, the church 
held a semi-centennial celebration of its establishment, when an 
address was delivered by Win. J. Onahan. Esq., and a handsome marble 
memorial-tablet was unveiled and placed in the wall of the vestibule. 
It contains the following inscription : "To the memory of the early 
Catholic missionaries of Illinois, sleeping in their unmarked graves, 
from Marquette to St. Cyr, on the 50th anniversary of the establish- 
ment in this city of St. Mary's Parish, and the erection of the first 
Christian Church, this tablet is reverently and gratefully erected by 
the pastor and flock, May 1, 1883." The pastor is Rev. J. P. Roles. 



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The Cathedral of the Holy Name (Catholic), corner of North State 
and Superior Streets, was commenced in 1874 and completed in 1882. 
There is a gronp of buildings which includes the cathedral proper, a 
parochial school, the academy of the ladies of the Sacred Heart, the 
presbytery, and others, occupying an entire block. The academy and 
school are of brick, and the cathedral and presbytery of stone. The 
first two stand on a half block donated by the late Hon. W. B. Ogden 

for school pur- 
poses. The origi- 
nal cathedral and 
school buildings 
were consumed 
by the fire of 
1871. The ca- 
thedral, which was 
built at a cost of 
$200,000, seats 
1,800 people, is 
of the Gothic 
style, cruciform, 
with a tower sur- 
mounted by a 
spire, and is no- 
ticeable for its 
graceful architec- 
ture. The inte- 
rior is finely fin- 
ished,abundantly 
lighted with large 
stained glass win- 
dows, and has 
three beautiful 

marble altars. The organ is exquisitely finished, and is probably the most 
powerful in the city. The singing is usually by a quartette, but large cho- 
ruses are added on special occasions. The Cathedral of the Holy Name 
was organized as the Church of the Holy Name in 1846. The present 
clerical personnel is as follows : Most Kev. Patrick A. Feehan, D. D.; 
Very Eev. P. J. Conway, V.G., rector ; Kev. P. D. Gill, chancellor ; Kevs. 
F. S. Henneberry, J. J. Carroll, M. J. Fitzsimmons and J. J. Darcy. 
The Church of the Holy Family (Catholic), corner of West Twelfth 




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and May Streets, is a large and handsome brick structure. It seats 
about 2,000 people, and is remarkable tor its superb stained glass win- 
dows, its number of tine statues and its massive bell tower and spire. It 
was built in 1857 under the renowned missionary, Eev. Arnold Damen, 
S. J., who has performed wonders in rescuing large areas of Chicago 
from what at times was simple savagery. His labors here, apart from 
his religious efforts, have been of inestimable benefit to the city. The 
affairs of the church are directed by ten Jesuit Fathers. Sodality 
Building, immediately in the rear of the church, is a spacious structure. 
It contains numerous rooms and spacious halls for the use of the various 
church sodalities, and two libraries with an aggregate of 2,400 books. 

St. James' Church (Catholic), corner of AVabash Avenue and Thir- 
tieth Street, occupies one of the finest church edifices in the city. It 
is a Gothic-like, structure of stone, cruciform, compact and well pro- 
portioned, and has an uncompleted tower. The nave is finished in 
oiled light wood, and two rows of polished granite pillars support the 
roof. It is lighted by large and handsome stained glass windows, and 
three marble altars are to be put in. It will seat, with the two small 
galleries, about 1,600 persons. The building was erected during the 
pastorate of Eev. P. W. O'Eiordan, now coadjutor archbishop of San 
Francisco. The present clerical staff is composed of Eevs. Hugh 
McGuire, Lawrence A. E. Erhard, P. J. Fenan and D. Lyon. 

St. Johns Church (Catholic), corner of Eighteenth and Clark Streets, 
was established June 29, 1859. The church edifice is a splendid stone 
structure, pure Gothic in style, and a model of architectural beauty. 
It is somewhat cruciform, having a short transept. The spire is unfin- 
ished. The interior, with its brilliant frescoes, beautiful stained glass 
windows and panels presenting representations of scriptural charac- 
ters is well worthy of the strikingly handsome exterior. It will seat 
1.600 persons. This building was completed and dedicated in 1881, 
and was built mainly through the efforts of Father Waldron, who is 
highly esteemed for the great work he has accomplished, and for his 
charitable efforts in behalf of the poor of his parish. The officiating 
priests are Eev. John Waldron, and his assistant, Eev. C. P. Foster. 

The Society of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) was organized 
in 1843 with three members. It held its meetings for a time in a pub- 
lic hall. Eev. J. E. Hibbard, D. D., the first pastor, was installed 
in 1850. In 1857 an old church building, originally built by the Sec- 
ond Presbyterian Church on Harrison Street,was purchased, and served 
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'200 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAG6. 

of Wabash Avenue and Adams Street. Dr. Hibbard's health failing 
him, Kev. C. Day Noble was called as an assistant in 1870, and in 1871 
the pastor was granted leave of absence and sailed for Europe just 
before the great fire, which destroyed the building. The society then 
undertook to erect buildings for a South Side congregation on the cor- 
ner of Eighteenth Street and Prairie Avenue, and a West Side congre- 
gation on the corner of Washington Street and Ogden Avenue. On Dr. 
Hibbard's return from Europe there was a division of the society, a 
part of the South Side congregation organizing as a second society 
with Eev. C. Day Noble as pastor. The panic of 1873 completed the 
financial ruin of many of the leading members of the society, still further 
crippling the operations of the church. In 1877 a new union society 
was organized with Rev. I. P. Mercer as pastor, holding services in Her- 
shey Music Hall, Rev. Dr. Hibbard resigning the pastorate of the Chicago 
society in the same year, and services were suspended on the South Side. 
In 1881 the Chicago society sold its lot on the corner of Prairie Avenue 
and Eighteenth Street, and a new building was erected on Van Buren 
Street east of Wabash Avenue. The members of the two societies 
united, and Rev. I. P. Mercer became the pastor. The society now 
numbers some 200. Rev. G-eo. Nelson Smith is pastor of the North 
Side congregation (Lincoln Park Chapel) and the West Side congrega- 
tion (Union Park Temple). Rev. LP. Mercer remains in charge of the 
New Church Temple. The society maintains a New Church library and 
book room, for the sale and circulation of the works of Swedenborg 
and other New Church writings. It is located in the temple on Van 
Buren Street east of Wabash Avenue. 

The Kehilath Anshe Maarab (Congregation of Men of the West), 
corner of Indiana Avenue and Twenty- sixth Street, is the oldest Hebrew 
congregation in the city. It adheres to the party of moderate reform. 
It was organized in 1846, and numbers about 120 families. There 
were several removals before the congregation settled in the modest 
wooden building it now occupies. The seating capacity is about 800. 
Dr. Ignatz Kunreuther, lately deceased, was the first pastor. Dr. Sam- 
uel Sale is the present minister 

Zion Congregation, corner of Sangamon and West Jackson Streets, 
occupies a modest frame building, which was erected in 1869. It has 
three Sunday school rooms in the basement. The auditorium seats 
about 700. The membership includes about 100 families of Reformed 
Jewish faith. Services are held both Saturday and Sunday mornings. 
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Congregatio \ the founder and pastor of the latter, Dr. B. Felsenthal, 
becoming the minister of the new synagogue, which position he still 
holds. 

Sinai Congregation, occupying Sinai Temple, corner of Indiana 
Avenue and Twenty-first Street, was organized in 1861, and is the 
leading church of the 
Jewish faith in the 
west. The temple was 
erected in 1876 at a 
cost of $100,000, in- 
cluding the ground 
The interior is ele- 
gantly finished in hard 
wood, and very hand - 
somely furnished. 
The auditorium is ar- 
ranged like an amphi- 
theater, and with the 
gallery, recently add- 
ed, affords seats for 
1,400 people. After 
the fire the congrega- 
tion temporarily occu- 
pied various locations 
until the erection of 
the temple. Themem- 

bershipincludesabout SlNAI Temple - 

150 families, and is Eeformed Jewish in faith. Dr. E. G. Hirseh, who 
is Avidely known as a man of great learning and piety, is rabbi in charge. 

St. Paul's Church (Universalist), Wabash Avenue between Sixteenth 
and Eighteenth Streets, is the leading and oldest church of its denom- 
ination in the city. The building is a fine stone structure, of Gothic 
architecture, modified by Eomanesque features. The interior finish is 
black walnut, and a good deal of excellent carving adds to the beauty 
of the work. It was built in 1873, the edifice previously occupied 
having been destroyed by the conflagration of 1871. The main audi- 
torium seats 1,500, and on the floor below is a lecture room with seat- 
ing capacity for 600, a library, parlor and other rooms. The church 
membership embraces about 150 families, and the Sunday school has 
400 pupils. There is also an industrial school in the building, with 




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seventy pupils. This church had its inception in 1841-42. Rev. 
W. H. Ryder, D. D., was the pastor for over twenty-one years, com- 
mencing in 1860. Rev. J. Coleman Adams is the present pastor. 

The Church of the Messiah, or Firct Unitarian Association, corner 
of Michigan Avenue and Twenty-third Street, was formerly known as 
the First Unitarian Church, and is the pioneer church of that denom- 
ination in Chicago. It was organized June 29, 1836, and after various 
changes finally settled in the present building in 1873, the building 
previously occupied in another location having perished in the confla- 
gration, as its pred- 
ecessor had also 
fallen victim to that 
element. The edi- 
fice is of stone, sur- 
mounted by a low 
tower, and was 
erected at a cost of 
$50,000. The in- 
terior is hand- 
somely finished in 
black walnut and 
pine. The seating 
capacity is 750. 
Eev. Robert Coll- 
yer was minister 
at large for a brief 
season in 1857. In 
1866 the noted 
Rev. Robert Laird 
Collier became pas- 
tor, and during his 
incumbency of 
nearly ten years, gave the church a national fame. After the death of his 
wife/he resigned his charge in 1875. She was a daughter of Hon. 
Hiram Price, of Iowa, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and a woman of 
exceptionally noble mind and character. A fine two-story memorial 
structure called ''Mary Collier Chapel," was erected in the rear of the 
church building at a cost of $30,000. It contains the pastor's study 
and parlor, and a chapel for Sunday school uses. Rev. Brooke Hereford 
followed Mr. Collier, and the present pastor, Rev. David Utter, took 




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charge Jan. 15, 1883. The church supports the Hereford Kindergar- 
ten on Twenty-second Street near Wentworth Avenue. 

Unity Church, Dearborn Avenue, opposite Washington Square, is 
the largest of the Unitarian organizations in the city. It was organized 
Dec. 23, 1857, and held its first services on the last Sunday in May. 
1859. Rev. Eobert Collyer preached the first sermon, and continued 
in the pastoral charge for twenty years, his brilliant ability and liberal 
and humane theology commanding public attention, drawing hundreds 
to the membership, and spreading the fame of his church far and wide. 
Christmas eve, 1859, Eev. Dr. Hosmer, of -Buffalo, preached the ded- 
ication sermon in the first building erected for the church. Nearly ten 
years later — June 20, 1869— Eev. Dr. Bellows, of New York, preached 
the dedication sermon in the second edifice, erected and furnished at a 
cost of $210,000. Dec. 7, 1873, Eev. Dr. Furness, of Philadelphia, 
preached the dedication sermon in the third building (the previous one 
having been burned in 1871), which had been erected at a cost of 
$97,737, using the walls and foundation of its predecessor. It has 
capacity for comfortably seating 1,500 persons. The building is of 
rough-dressed stone, renaissance Gothic in style, with two unfinished 
towers, to the completion of which $26,000 left by the late Eli Bates 
will be applied. A gallery extends around three sides of the nave, and 
the interior finish is of dark hardwood, oil polished. The acoustic 
properties are said to be perfect. The church pays a great deal of 
attention to social, charitable and missionary matters. An Industrial 
school for girls, in which sewing and the various forms of housework 
are taught, has been supported by the church for a number of years. 
A fine building has just been erected for the school, at a cost of $20,- 
000, from a fund bequeathed for this purpose by the late Eli Bates. 
In the summer of 1879 the church reluctantly accepted the resignation 
of Mr. Collyer. Eev. Geo. C. Miln Avas then installed, but after about 
one year retired. The present pastor, Eev. Geo. Batchelor, was in- 
stalled the first Sunday in November, 1882. 

The First German Baptist Church, corner of Bickerdike and West 
Huron Streets, was organized in 1858. The house is a plain wooden 
building with a seating capacity of 400. It has 300 members, a Sun- 
day school of 300 pupils ; an afternoon Sunday school in the Danish 
language, with fifty pupils ; and a mission school on Burling and Wil- 
low Streets which has 150 pupils and occupies a brick building erected 
by the church at a cost of $13,000, The pastor, Eev. Jacob Meier, has 
officiated since 1878, 



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The Memorial Church (Baptist), on Oakwood Boulevard near Cottage 
Grove Avenue, was formerly University Place Church. The society 
was organized near the close of 1868, in the chapel of the Chicago 
University, and had for its first pastor J. A. Smith, D. D. Several dis- 
tinguished divines subsequently filled its pulpit. During the pastorate 
of Kev. J. T. Burhoe the building was removed to its present location, 
about a mile south of its former site. Its membership includes many 
persons who were formerly members of the Indiana Avenue Church, 
which dissolved in 18?~5. Kev. N. E. "Wood, D. D., the present pastor, 
took charge in 1883. 

The Churches in Chicago represent most all the denominations. 
Only the leading churches of the various denominations have been 
noted in the preceding pages. The total number of duly organized 
congregations is 262. The number in each denomination is shown in 
the f ollowing table : 



DENOMINATION. 


NO. 


DENOMINATION. 


NO. 




24 
5 

25 
2 

16 
6 
7 

33 
2 
5 
2 


Independent .... . . 

Jewish , . . . 


4 

14 

40 

3 

4 

16 

35 

4 

2 

13 








Congregational . . . 
Dutch Keformed . . , 

Episcopal 

Episcopal (Reformed) . 
Evangelical Association 
Evangelical Lutheran . 
Evangelical Reformed . 
Evangelical United . . 
Free Methodist . . . 






Methodist Episcopal .... 
Methodist Episcopal (Colored) 
New Jerusalem(Swedenborgian) 

Presbyterian 

Roman Catholic 

Unitarian 

Universalist 

Miscellaneous . , 

Total 


262 











The Chicago Bible Society is a branch of the American Bible Soci- 
ety. Its object is to promote the wider circulation of the Bible, and its 
field is confined to Cook County, in which there are thirty- seven aux- 
iliary societies. About 150 local agents are employed in canvassing 
the county, and the city and county have been thoroughly canvassed 
eleven times since the organization of the society, and over a half 
million copies of the Bible have been circulated. The depository is at 
150 Madison Street. 

The Young Men's Christian Association (Holland) has had merely 
a nominal existence for some time, and for nearly two years its regular 
meetings have been suspended. Latterly, however, interest has been 
somewhat revived and a n organization is proposed. The association 
has a library of over 300 volumes. Meetings were formerly held at the 
First Dutch Eeformed Church, corner of May and West Harrison 
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The Scandinavian Young Men's Christian Association was first 
organized June 1, 1872, by the young men of Trinity Lutheran Church, 
corner of Indiana and Peoria Streets, the congregation of which is 
Scandinavian. A reorganization took place in 1873, but not much 
interest was manifested until 1883, when the Avork revived. The asso- 
ciation now has 140 members, and occupies a hall at No. 183 Peoria 
Street, where it has a small library of Scandinavian books and English 
Bibles. O. L. Stangeland, 239 W, Erie Street, is president. 

The Chicago Young Men's Christian Association was founded in 
1858. It began with 151 members, had 
355 at the end of its first year and now 
numbers upwards of 3,000. During the 
war it was active in missionary and relief 
work among the soldiers, and gave sev- 
enty-five men to the first call for volun- 
teers. One hundred and forty-one of its 
members perished in camp and on the 
field. Jan. 7, 1868, its commodious 
building at 148 and 150 Madison Street 
was destroyed by fire, and a second one 
was lost in the great fire of 1871, the 
losses aggregating in the neighborhood 
of $100,000. The present building was 
dedicated Nov. 26, 1874, and remodeled 
in the summer of 1882. It is a substan- 
tial five-story structure, erected at a cost 
of $90,000, and valued, with the ground, 
at $250,000. The library contains 3,600 
works, and is free to all members. The 
reading-room is open to the public, and 
is abundantly supplied with papers and Y - M - c - A - Bu|LD i n g- 

magazines. The parlors are handsomely furnished and inviting. The 
gymnasium has an average daily attendance of 275. The baths are excel- 
lent and well patronized, 340 lockers being provided. The sociables, 
receptions and lectures are popular and liberally attended. Eailroad 
branches of the association have been established at the corner of 
Kinzie and Canal Streets, where there is a reading room, and at 4645 
State Street and 141 Stewart Avenue, where both reading and bath 
rooms are provided, and at the latter, coffee and sleeping rooms are also 
established. The employment department is doing excellent work. 




206 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

The Chicago Sabbath Association has been in active operation 
since 1879, first as a branch of the International Sabbath Association, 
and afterward as a separate organization. Its special mission is to 
protect the Sabbath as a day of rest and worship, and hence it opposes 
all unnecessary labor, traffic, public shows, etc., on that day, as inter- 
fering with its dedication to the purposes mentioned, and tending to 
degrade it in the eyes of youth. The society has held some popu- 
lar meetings and circulated a large amount of literature. Win. Niestadt, 
57 Washington Street, is secretary. 

The Cook County Sunday School Association dates its formation 
March 24, 1859, and includes all workers in the Evangelical Sunday 
schools in Cook County. It aims to promote interest in Sunday school 
matters, and to develop better modes of work. It distributes about 
$13,000 annually for benevolence, and about $1,000 for state and 
county work. The office is at 148 Madison Street. W. B. Jacobs is 
superintendent. 

The American Sunday School Union organized its Chicago branch 
in 1855. The special work of this organization is to establish and 
assist Sunday schools, employing missionaries for the purpose, and 
supplying the schools with suitable literature. Sixteen of the vice- 
presidents of the union are pious citizens of Chicago. E. G-. Ensign, 
148 Madison Street, is the superintendent of the Chicago branch. 



THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES, COLLEGES, AND OTHER 
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. 

THE educational institutions of Chicago are well up to its necessities, 
save in the matter of public school buildings. It has been an im- 
possibility to extend the public school facilities so as to keep pace with 
the demands of the growing population. But there is an ample supply 
of private educational institutions, such as seminaries, grammar 
schools, kindergartens, manual training schools and business and pro- 
fessional colleges. The aggregate of schools of all kinds and grades in 
and immediately about Chicago, makes it a great center of education. 
In the building up of these schools money has been supplied lavishly ; 
endowments and funds have been profusely furnished ; the important 
accessories of great libraries have already reached an extraordinary 
extent ; and scholarships of the most liberal character abound in many 
of the institutions. 

The Public Schools are arranged on the well-known graded system, 
and are divided into three departments, primary, grammar, and the 
high schools. The primary schools are those in which the first four 
grades are taught ; the grammar schools take the pupils up to the eighth 
grade ; and the high schools take them through still higher studies 
known as the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades. There are 
three high schools, one in each division of the city, and located as fol- 
lows : The South Division high school, corner of Wabash Avenue and 
Twenty-sixth Street ; West Division high school, corner of Morgan and 
Monroe Streets ; North Division high school, corner of Wendell and 
Wells Streets. The total attendance in the high school department 
during the year 1883-84 was 1,400, at a total cost per pupil of $48.22. 
The eight grades of the primary and grammar departments cover 
such an amount of ground, that, in graduating from the grammar 
schools, the pupils are fairly well prepared to enter the world without 
further school instruction. Evening schools have been opened in vari- 
ous school buildings, and one at the Newsboys' Home — in all, fourteen. 
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208 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

fit of those wlio desire to study in the higher grades. There are also 
five deaf mute schools, having a total attendance of about sixty. The 
elementary studies in these schools are in the course provided, includ- 
ing geography in some instances, and instruction relating to morals 
and manners. There are also classes in articulation for teaching vocal 
speech. There are sixty-eight public school buildings in the city. 
These are nearly all brick structures, and those lately erected are pro- 
vided with every modern improvement. The management of the schools 
is vested in a board of education appointed by the mayor, and confirmed 
by the city council. This board consists of fifteen members. The total 
value of the school sites occupied is $1,166,475 ; and the total value of 
the school buildings, including heating apparatus and furniture, is $2,- 
530,825. The income of the public school system consists of the school 
tax from the state and city, the income of the fund derived from rentals 
and sales of school lands, and from several special funds, such as the 
Jonathan Burr, Newberry, Michael Reese, Moseley and other funds, some 
of which were given for the purpose of supplying the children of indi- 
gent parents with the necessary text-books. 

The school fund property, consisting of real estate and the princi- 
pal of the school fund, amounts to $2,841,791. The city tax for 
school purposes in 1883 was $1,375,437.15, at the rate of 10.325 
mills on a total tax valuation of $133,213,688. The total cash receipts 
of the school board for the year 1883 were $1,434,571.32, and the 
total expenditures $1,327,837.63. The total number of children enrolled 
in the city during the year 1883-84 was 72,509, and the average daily 
membership of pupils during the same period was 55,890, thus leaving 
thousands who either attend private schools or the parochial schools of 
the religious denominations, but comparatively few, it is believed, who 
do not enjoy school facilities of some kind. There were 1,195 teachers 
employed, and the total cost of the system for the year was $1,132,- 
820, of which $771,000 was expended for tuition. 

The University of Chicago originated with Hon. Stephen A. Doug- 
las. In 1855-56, while a member of the Senate of the United States, 
Mr. Douglas proposed, as a mark of respect to the memory of his 
deceased wife, to endow an educational institution under the general 
control of the Baptist denomination. To this end he offered to donate 
the ten acres of land on which the University buildings now stand. 
Bev. J. C. Burroughs resigned the pastorate of the First Baptist Church, 
accepted a deed of trust of the property for the purpose named, and 
undertook the task of raising funds for the construction of the neces- 
*During 1886 the University of Chicago lost its property by foreclosure, and the 
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sary buildings. The corner-stone of the south wing was accordingly 
laid July 4, 1857. This wing afforded accommodations for the stu- 
dents for some years, but in 1865 the buildings were completed. In 
1858 the preparatory department was organized, with the double view 
of preparing students for admission to the college, and of providing 
those who are unable to take the collegiate course with a first-class 
academic education. In 1873, the office of chancellor was created, and 
vested with the financial and general management, and Dr. Burroughs 
was chosen to that post. He was succeeded in the presidency by Kev. Dr. 





University of Chicago, Cottage Grove Ave., Near Thirty-fifth St. 

Lemuel Moss, who a year later was succeeded by Hon. Alonzo Abernethy, 
who occupied the chair for two years, when Eev. Galusha Ander- 
son, S. T. D., LL. D., was called to the position, the duties of which he 
still fulfills. The university includes a preparatory department, a gen- 
eral collegiate department and the Union College of Law. The latter 
is referred to in detail elsewhere. The curriculum of the collegiate 
department embraces a classical and a scientific course, and the stand- 
ard of examinations is high. Students are also allowed to pursue an 
elective course, subject to the regulations of the facuhv^, certificates of 
proficiency being given in studies in which satisfactory examinations 
have been pa sed. Ladies are admitted into both the preparatory and 
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210 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

collegiate departments on the same terms as the other sex. There is a 
valuable library, and an extensive museum, embracing a considerable 
collection of charts, models, specimens, skeletons, etc., illustrative of 
human anatomy, zoology, geology and numismatology, together with 
a well equipped herbarium, and a full supply of modern apparatus for 
the illustration of lectures on chemistry and natural philosophy. The 
buildings are strikingly handsome in architectural design. They stand 
in a grove of old trees on Cottage Grove Avenue near Thirty-fifth 
Street. Although started under the auspices of the Baptist denomi- 
nation, there is nothing sectarian in the management of the University. 

The Northwestern University occupies a group of buildings in 
Evanston, one of the most beautiful suburbs of Chicago. The grounds 
on which the buildings are situated consist of about thirty acres lying on 
the shore of Lake Michigan. The main building, called University Hall, 
shown in the illustration on the opposite page, was erected at a cost 
of $110,000. It is used only for chapel, library, museum and recita- 
tion purposes. The library contains about 26,000 volumes, and 
8,000 pamphlets. It includes the Greenleaf collection of Greek and 
Latin literature, about 14,000 volumes, which is said to be one of the 
most complete classical collections in America. What is known as the 
Orrington Lunt library fund, amounting to considerably over $25,000, 
is set apart for library purposes. The museum contains valuable col- 
lections. There is a large and well appointed gymnasium on the 
grounds. The university embraces a college of liberal arts, provid- 
ing classical, Latin and scientific courses, a course in modern 
literature and art, and special and elective courses ; a college of medi- 
cine (Chicago Medical College); a college of law (Union College of Law); 
preparatory school, school of elocution, conservatory of music, depart- 
ment of art. The university is under control of the Methodist denom- 
ination, but is unsectarian. The university was incorporated in 1851. 
The entire property, which includes large real estate interests in Chi- 
cago, is valued, at $1,500,000. Female students are admitted on the 
same terms as males, to the cillege of liberal arts, the Evanston Col- 
lege for Ladies having become a department of the university in June, 
1873. They occupy a handsome building known as the "Woman's 
College,"and used chiefly for study and lodging rooms. In 1883 the 
university had a total of 753 students. Kev. Joseph Cummins, D.D., 
LL. D., is president of the faculty. 

Cook County Normal and Training School, Normalville, Stewart Ave- 
nue and Sixty-seventh Street, was established by Cook County for the 



212 MARQUIS' BAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

purpose of furnishing competent teachers for the public schools. 
There are a normal and a preparatory department. All applicants for 
admission to the normal department must declare their intention to 
teach in the public schools and to give the county the preference in all 
offers to secure their services ; and are required to pass satisfactory 
examination in various common school branches — except those holding 
teacher's certificates or those who have graduated from a high school. 
Pupils are admitted to the preparatory -department without examina- 
tion. Tuition is free to residents of the county. Non-residents are 
required to pay $30 per year. The buildings were erected in 1874. 
The school was originally established at Blue Island in 1867. Francis 
W. Parker is principal. 

The Union College of Law was organized in 1859 as the law depart- 
ment of the University of Chicago. About ten years ago the North- 
western University was admitted to an equal interest and joint manage- 
ment in the school. The full term of study occupies two years of 
thirty-six weeks each. Those entering are expected to have at least a 
good common school education. The diploma granted for a full course 
admits the graduate to the bar of Illinois, and attendance for a shorter 
period is credited to the applicant on examination before the Appellate 
Court. The college occupies rooms at Nos. 80 and 82 Dearborn Street. 
Hon. Henry Booth, LL. D.,is dean of the faculty. 

St. Ignatius College, 413 West Twelfth Street, is conducted by the 
Fathers of the Society of Jesus. It was organized in 1869 and char- 
tered a year later with power to confer the usual degrees. It embraces 
academic, collegiate, commercial and preparatory departments. The 
academic department is preparatory to the collegiate, but furnishes in 
itself a thorough high school education for those who have not the 
opportunity to take the collegiate course. The collegiate department 
comprises four classes : Philosophy, Rhetoric, Poetry and the Human- 
ities. The commercial department embraces all the branches of a 
good English education. The preparatory class is for students not 
sufficiently advanced to enter the academic or commercial departments. 
In addition to the regular departments of instruction there are the Loyola 
Debating Society, for the promotion of eloquence and a taste for literary 
studies, and the Saint Cecilia Society, whose purpose is to improve its 
members in vocal music, and to contribute to the celebration of literary 
and religious festivals. In addition to collegiate studies the students 
are instructed in the doctrines and evidences of the Catholic religion. 
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MARQUIS' HA XD- BOOK OF CHICAGO. 213 

of Bachelor of Arts, and by devoting one more year to the study of 
philosophy, or two years to any of the learned professions, he may 
receive the degree of Master of Arts. The college buildings are hand- 
some and commodious. There are a staff of twenty professors, a fine 
museum, a library of 12,000 volumes, a laboratory, a conchological 
collection, and, in short, all that is essential to a first-class educational 
establishment. Eev. Jos. G. Zealand, S. J., is president of the faculty. 

The German-American Young Ladies' Institute is a day and board- 
ing school for girls. It was established in 1880, and, as an institution 
for practical instruction, it has become well and favorably known. The 
two buildings occupied at Nos. 605 and 607 North Clark Street, near 
Lincoln Park, are very commodious. They provide accommodations 
for tea resident (boarding) students, and about seventy day pupils. 
'1 he course of study is divided into Junior, Intermediate and Senior 
departments, and contemplates thorough instruction in all branches of 
learning that may be essential to the pupil in after life, or that may add 
to her accomplishments. It has always been the aim of the institution 
to give pupils equal advantages in the German and English languages, 
and special opportunities are now extended to boarding pupils in 
acquiring t :e French language, there being two resident French 
teachers. Pupils may enter the institute at any time. The faculty con- 
sists of ten instructors. Mrs. Amelia Ende is principal. 

St. Xavier's Academy is conducted as a boarding school for young 
ladies only, and is in charge of the Sisters of Mercy. It was first 
opened in 1846, and was incorporated in February, 1847. In August, 
1873, several changes in location having previously been made, the 
pre ent splendid building, one of the handsomest devoted to educa- 
tional purposes, on the corner of Wabash Avenue and Twenty-ninth 
Street, was occupied. The course of study embraces the various 
branches of solid and useful education. 

The Chicago Manual Training School, Michigan Avenue and 
Twenty-second Street, originated with an association of gentlemen 
connected with the Commercial Club. It was incorporated in 1883, 
and opened Feb. 4, 1884. Its object is to give instruction in mathe- 
matics, drawing, and the English branches of a high school course, and 
specially in the use of tools in shopwork of all kinds. The building 
was erected by the association at a cost of $50,000. It is of pressed 
red brick, five stories, and covers 80x100 feet of ground ; and will 
accommodate 300 pupils at study and work. The mechanical depart- 
ment is equipped with benches, lathes, tools, forges, engine, etc., and 



214 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

the American Electrical Society's scientific library of nearly 500 vol- 
umes has been placed in the school, and other valuable books of refer- 
ence have been donated. 

The Illinois Training School for Nurses was instituted in 1881. 
The school occupies two wards in the County Hospital. Its object is 
not only to furnish trained nurses for the sick and wounded, but also to 
afford those who desire to become skilled nurses such facilities as will 
open to them a self-supporting and honorable profession. Pupils are 
required to undergo training for two years. The buildings and ground 
known as the Nurses' Home, are located at 304 Honore Street. They 
are the property of the society. The institution is supported by con- 
tributions, annual subscriptions, services to the hospital, private nurs- 
ing and membership fees. 

The Illinois Industrial School for Girls was chartered January, 1877, 
with a capital of $500 from the treasury of the disbanded Woman's 
Centennial Association. Its board of directors is composed of men 
and women from different parts of the state. It is located at South 
Evanston in the old Soldiers' Home building, which was remodeled and 
enlarged for the purpose. The specific object is the maintenance of a 
home and training school for neglected, dependent and homeless 
girls under eighteen years of age, until permanent homes and means of 
support can be secured for them. Mrs. Helen M. Beveridge is president. 

St. Mary's Training School for Boys is a Catholic institution under 
the charge of the Christian Brothers, at Feehanville, Cook County. It 
was incorporated under tne present name in 1882, a farm of 440 
acres was purchased, and suitable buildings were erected. 

The Chicago Athenaeum, well called "The People's College," has 
its rooms at 48 to 54 Dearborn Street, occupying the three upper 
stories. It has for its purpose intellectual and physical training and 
has become a recognized institution of the highest educational value. 
It originated soon after the great fire, and was the medium through 
which relief, to the amount of $175,000, was bestowed upon the suf- 
ferers. It was then known as the Chicago Young Men's Christian 
Union, but three years later, the board of government, recognizing 
the need of practical educational work in a central location, the name 
was changed to the Chicago Athenaeum. It includes day and evening 
classes, also a gymnasium. All the instruction of the Mechanics' Insti- 
tute is given here. The curriculum is comprehensive, and withal 
notably practical. It includes drawing, music, elocution, mathematics, 
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215 



book-keeping, short-hand and type-writing, French, German, and 
Spanish. It has a day grammar school and also a business school, 
open to both sexes, in which Munson's short-hand, type-writing, and 
German are taught. A ladies' class for the critical study of the best 

English literature, es- 
pecially Shakespeare, 
is held every Wednes- 
day afternoon. An 
employment bureau 
furnishes clerks, 
mechanics, short- 
hand reporters and 
type-writers. The 
Athenaeum is Avholly 
unsectarian, its only 
condition of member- 
bership being that of 
good moral character. 
The gymnasium is not 
the least important 
feature of the institu- 
tion. It occupies 
a room 90X80 feet 

The Chicago "Athen/eum. and twenty - S even 

feet high, well -lighted and ventilated and equipped with every desir- 
able accessory to such a place. It has a large active membership and 
gives several athletic exhibitions every winter to crowded houses. 
The number of people taught in the Athenaeum is about 1,000 a year, 
a number very much greater than that of any academy or college in the 
state. Financially it is flourishing, and full of promise for the future. 
Its pressing need is a much larger building, with more class-rooms and 
a commodious hall for first-class lectures on art, science, and literature. 
Mrs. Mancel Talcott has given $5,000 toward a permanent fund, also 
$1,000 for the exclusive use of the library. The late Eli Bates left a 
bequest of $1 0,000 toward the same fund. The board of directors, of 
which P. B. Moulton, Esq., is president, and John Wilkinson. JEsq., 
recording secretary and treasurer, is composed of sixteen prominent 
merchants and lawyers. A warm interest in* the welfare of the Athen- 
aeum, is taken by the mercantile community. Mr. Edward I. Galvin is 
superintendent, and Mr. Joseph Silvers, assistant superintendent. 




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Rush Medical College is the oldest medical college in Chicago, and was 
the first educational institution incorporated in the Northwest. It was 
started in embryo in 1836 by Dr. Daniel Brainard, Avho for many years 
led the medical faculty of the west. Dr. Brainard, with Dr. G. C. 
Goodhue, of Bockford, 111., secured an act of incorporation which was 
approved in 1837, but owing to the prevailing financial depression, the 
college did not organize until 1843, when two small rooms were fitted 
up on Clark Street, and a course of lectures delivered by the faculty, 
consisting of Drs. Brainard, Knapp, Blaney and McLean. In 1844 
some North Side citizens donated a lot on which was erected a building 
costing $3,500. In 1855 this was remodeled and enlarged to accommo- 




PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL. 



RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE. 



Rush Medical College. 



date 250 students. In 1 867 a new building was erected at a cost of about 
$100,000, but, on the fated 9th of October, 1871, the structure, with 
all its contents, disappeared in the flames. A temporary place was 
secured for lectures in the old County Hospital, and later a temporary 
structure was erected on Eighteenth Street. In 1875, the present 
building, at the corner of Wood and Harrison Streets was finished and 
occupied. It is one of the most complete institutions of the kind on 
the continent. It has two lecture rooms, each with a seating capacity of 
over 500 and thoroughly equipped. There are anatomical, physiolog- 
ical, clinical and chemical departments. The Central Free Dispensary 
is connected with the clinical department, and 2,000 cases are treated 
annually in the County Hospital. The value of the college property is 
about $125,000. The number of graduates per annum is about 175. 



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The Presbyterian Hospital, mentioned in the chapter on " Charity and 
Benevolence," was erected by the college, and then transferred to the 
Presbyterian Hospital Society— the faculty remaining in professional 
charge of the patients. The faculty is composed of twelve members. 
J. Adams Allen, M. D., is president. 

Hahnemann Medical College is the oldest homoeopathic college in 
the Northwest. It was incorporated in 1855, and lecture rooms were 
opened in 1859 at 168 Clark Street, with twenty-five students. The 
college building, at 2813 Cottage Grove Avenue, was erected in 1870. 
It is a brick structure with three stories and basement. The hospital 
is in the rear, one block away. There are two terms each year— a win- 
ter course, and a practitioner's course of six weeks in the spring. The 
plan of i istruction is largely clinical and objective, the college course 
being the complement of the daily drill in the hospital. Female stu- 
dents are admitted on the same terms as males. Many students come 
from New York and New England to complete their course at this 
institution. The faculty consists of seventeen professors. A. E. Small, 
M. D., is president ; R. Ludlam, M. D., is dean. 

The Chicago Medical College, corner of Prairie Avenue and Twenty- 
sixth Street, was founded in 1859, as the medical department of Lind 
University, but in 1864 it was incorporated as a separate institution, 
and in 1869 it was adopted as the medical department of the North- 
western University. Its founders were Drs. H. A. Johnson, N. S. Davis, 
W. H. Bvford, E. Andrews, R. N. Isham and David Rutter. It has a 
practitioner's course, a regular three years' course, and a fourth year 
for such as may desire to lake it. The two large amphitheaters per- 
mit of lectures to two classes at the same hour. The laboratories are 
supplied with modern apparatus, and the museum contains an excep- 
tiDnally large and useful collection. The college was the first in the 
United States to adopt a full graded system of medical instruction, and 
one of the first to require a fair standard of general education before 
entering the college. N. S. Davis, M. D.-, LL. D., is dean of the faculty ; 
Walter May, M. D., LL. D., is secretary, and E. Andrews, M. D., LL. D., 
treasurer. 

Bennett College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery was inaugurated 
in 1868, and chartered a year later. The school was opened on Kinzie 
Street, between LaSalle and Fifth Avenue, with thirty students. The 
second course was held at No. 180 East Washington Street, and was 
interrupted, but only for a week, by the great fire. After moving once 
or twice after the fire : a site was obtained at 511 and 513 State Street, 



218 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

on which was erected the present college building, a live -story struct- 
ure, 40X100 feet, with accommodation for 250 students. Bennett 
Hospital adjoins the college building in the rear. Ladies have been 
admitted on the same terms as males, except during one or two sessions 
of the school. The institution has graduated over 500 students. The 
faculty consists of fifteen members. Prof. Milton Jay, M. D., is dean. 

The Woman's Medical College of Chicago is located at 337 and 
339 Lincoln Street, opposite the County Hospital. It owes its existence 
largely to Dr. Wm. H. Byford, a local physician of eminence. It was 
established in 1870, and is now on a permanent foundation, and owns 
the brick building it occupies. There are a two and a three years' 
course of study, and a select course in anatomy, physiology, chemistry, 
or microscopy for ladies. The college is allopathic in its teachings, 
and the only medical school in the West exclusively for women. The 
faculty is composed of twenty-seven professors. W. H. Byford, A. M., 
M. D., is president, and Charles W. Earle, M. D., is secretary. 

The Chicago College of Pharmacy, 415 and 417 State Street, was 
founded in 1859. The war interrupted its progress after two courses of 
lectures had been given, and nothing further was done until 1869, 
when operations were again resumed only to be suspended by the fire 
of 1871. The next year contributions from druggists and Mends, 
amounting to four or five thousand dollars, and some books having 
been sent in, the lectures were once more resumed, and have continued 
without interruption. The new college building was erected during 
the summer of 1884. It is a handsome brick structure, and one of the 
best equipped pharmacy colleges in the country. The lecture hall on 
the first floor has seating capacity for 400 persons. The museum, 
library and experimental laboratory occupy the second floor, and the 
third floor is fitted up with an extensive pharmaceutical laboratory. 
The curriculum embraces chemistry, pharmacy, materia medica and 
toxicology, and botany. The college stands third in the Un'ted States 
in point of attendance. Thomas Whitfield is president ; S. L. Coffin, 
secretary, and T. H. Patterson, treasurer. 

The Chicago Dental Infirmary, Nos. 22 and 24 Adams Street, third 
floor, was founded in 1882. Its purpose is to educate practitioners for 
dental and oral surgery, to teach the science and art of dentistry to 
medically educated students, and the treatment or extraction of teeth. 
The institution is kept open the entire year for clinical instruction. 
James A. Swasey is president ; Edgar D. Swain, treasurer; Thomas W. 
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MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 219 

The Collegiate Department of the Chicago Dental Infirmary teaches 
the science and art of dentistry to medically educated young men who 
desire to practice that sp:cialty. The degree of Doctor of Dental Sur- 
gery is conferred only on men having a degree in medicine from col- 
eges recognized by the Illinois State Board of Health. 

The Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons ( Allopathic), cor- 
ner Harrison and Honore Streets, was organized in 1881. The build- 
ing is a splendid stone structure four stories in height, with a tower 
100 feet high. The architecture is the Queen Anne style. The amphi- 
theater seats 475. The curriculum of the college is comprehensive. 
It is adapted to a two or three years' course. The faculty consists 
of thirty professors, lecturers and demonstrators. A. Keeves Jackson, 
M. D., is president; D. A. K. Steele, M. D., is secretary; Leonard 
St. John, M. D., is treasurer. 

The Theological Schools are as follows : The Chicago Theological 
Seminary (Congregational) was founded in 1858. It occupies Carpen- 
ter & King's Halls and Hammond Library, corner Ashland and Warren 
Avenues. The library contains 6,000 volume's. The Presbyterian 
Theological Seminary of the Northwest, North Halsted Street and Ful- 
lerton Avenue, is the successor to a seminary originally established 
at Hanover, Ind., in 1830, removed to New Albany. Ind., in 1840, and 
to Chicago in 1859 on the offer of the late Cyrus H. McCormick 
to donate $100,000 for the endowment of four professorships. The 
buildings are spacious and handsome and the library contains 10,000 
volumes. The Baptist Theological Seminary was organized in Chicago 
in 1865, and removed to Morgan Park in 1877. It has a Swedish de- 
partment in which instruction is given in the Swedish language. 
The library, including the Huegestenberg and Ide collections, com- 
prises about 20,000 volumes. The property is valued at $300,000. 
The Garrett Biblical Institute (Methodist Episcopal), occupies build- 
ings erected on the grounds of the Northwestern University at a cost of 
$60,000. It was founded on a bequest of $300,000 worth of property 
by Mrs. Eliza Garrett. The Swedish Theological Seminary is under 
the supervision of the Northwestern Swedish M. E. Conference. It is 
exclusively a school for young men from the M. E. church. It was 
founded at Galesburg. 111., in 1868, but removed to its present con- 
nection with Northwestern University in 1882. 

The Chicago Mechanics' Institute was chartered in 1843. Its object 
is the diffusion of knowledge and information throughout the mechan- 
ical classes, and the formation of a library and museum for the benefit 



220 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

of mechanics. It does all its educational work through the Athe- 
nseiim. Individual instruction is given through the classes of the 
Athenaeum to mechanics and their children who are unable to pay for 
their tuition. The course of instruction includes reading, writing, 
arithmetic, geometry, and a complete course of free-hand and mechan- 
ical drawing. The average number of attendants during the past three 
years has been 140. This institute is a most valuable one, and is fully 
deserving of the sympathy and cordial support of the public. George 
C. Prussing is president ; Murry Nelson, treasurer ; Jos. Silvers, libra- 
rian/and John Wilkinson, auditor. 

Schools not heretofore specially mentioned embrace every depart- 
ment of instruction, and are nearly all private enterprises. Many of 
the churches and charitable and benevolent institutions maintain gen- 
eral or industrial schools or kindergartens— see chapters on '-Keligious 
Organizations " and " Charity and Benevolence." Morgan Park Military 
Academy is located at Morgan Park, as is also the Chicago Female Col- 
lege, -and the society of the American Institute of Hebrew, but are 
properly classed as Chicago institutions. Unity Church Industrial 
School has recently moved into its new building on Elm Street. 

Music Schools are numerous, but all of a private character. The 
leading music schools are the Chicago Musical College, Central Music 
Hall; School of Lyric and Dramatic Art, Weber Music Hall; Hershey 
School of Musical Art, Hershey Music Hall. 

The Art Schools are mentioned in the chapter on "Arts and Sci- 
ences." 

The Private Schools, by which term all schools in the city, except 
public schools under the charge of the Board of Education, may be 
designated, numbered in May (1884) 156, with 33,874 pupils, as fol- 
lows : Kindergartens, 26— with 626 female and 511 male pupils and 
69 teachers ; parochial, 73— wi h 15,036 female and 13.463 male 
pupils and 442 teachers ; business colleges, 4— with 293 female and 
748 male pupils and 37 teachers ; all others, 57— with 2,274 female 
and 1,923 male pupils and 302 teachers. 



'xShe ,-SiWarie£. 

THE OLD AND NEW LIBRARIES, THE READING ROOMS, AND THE 
PRIVATE BOOK COLLECTIONS. 

BEFORE the great fire of 1871 the principal libraries of the city 
were those of the Young Men's Association and of the Historical 
Society. The Yonng Men's Association was organized in 1841, and 
proceeded at once to make the first snccessfnl associated effort to 
establish a library in Chicago, and at the time of the conflagration 
had accumulated about 16,000 volumes, which were destroyed. The 
institution seems to have then and there received its death-blow, as it 
has never since been revived. There were several large collections of 
books on historical and other special subjects, owned by private indi- 
viduals, but the two named were the only libraries open to general 
access. There was no public library, supported as a municipal institu- 
tion by public taxation, and free to all. 

The Public Library was originated by Thomas Hughes, M. P., of 
London, the well-known English author, soon after the great fire. Mr. 
Hughes issued an appeal to publishers, authors, librarians and - others 
throughout Great Britain, asking for donations of books for the estab- 
lishment of a free public library in Chicago, and in a short time more 
than 7.000 volumes were received in response to the appeal. The 
British Museum gave copies of all of its own publications, with other 
spare volumes, and its example was followed by Oxford University, 
the Commissioner of Patents, the Master of the Rolls and the leading 
English publishers, authors and owners of libraries. The Queen her- 
self sent, " as a mark of English sympathy," a copy of her book on " The 
Early Life of the Prince Consort." At a public meeting Jan. 8, 1872, 
it was determined to make the library a public institution. A commit- 
tee was appointed to draft a bill giving the city the authority to estab- 
lish and maintain it, and the legislature promptly passed the measure. 
While the institution was taking on the form of organization, the books 
were temporarily placed in the immense iron tank at the corner of 
Adams and LaSalle Streets, which was formerly a part of the water- 
works. A reading room was opened there in January, 1873. Early in 



222 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

1874 library rooms were procured at the corner of Wabash Avenue and 
Madison Street. For public use the library was divided into two 
departments— the circulating department, from which books can be 
taken out under proper regulations, and the reference department, in 
which the books are open for examination, but are not allowed to be 
taken from the building. The circulating department was opened to 
the public May 1, 1874, the total number of volumes in the library at 
that time being 17,355. In May, 1875, the library was removed to 
the building at the southwest corner of Dearborn and Lake Streets, 
and in May, 188G, it was removed to the room now occupied on the. 
fourth floor of the City Hall. Branch deliveries have been established 
at 124 East Twenty-second Street, 482 South Halsted Street, 409 
Milwaukee Avenue, 817 West Madison, 349 E. Division, 233 Thirty- 
first, and 531 West Twelfth Streets. The following statistics for the 
year 1885-6 will give the reader an idea of the work of this library: 
Number of books in library, 119,510; expended for new books, $9,- 
405.38; circulation, 608,708; borrowers registered, 27,142; visitors 
to the reference department, 66.498; visitors to the reading-room, 
655,816; periodicals on file, 325; newspapers on file, 156; cost of 
serials, $1,444.84: salary account. $32,202.76. Wm. F. Poole, form- 
erly librarian of the Cincinnati Public Library, and previously of the 
Boston Athensbum, has been librarian since 1873. The library is open 
to the public every day from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. 

The Chicago Historical Society was organized in 1856. The first 
secretary and librarian was Bev. W. H. Barry. Nearly 100,000 volumes 
of books and a very large accumulation of manuscripts relating to the 
traditions and early settlement of Illinois, and a vast amount of valu- 
able information concerning the civil war, including much that was 
rare and not otherwise obtainable, was secured and in the possession of 
the society before the great fire, and all was lost. Immediately after 
the fire, many collections were forwarded to the society from Europe 
and o*her sources, and reached here in time to be consumed by the 
fire of July, 1874. In the summer of 1877 money was raised to put 
up the present building, which was first occupied Oct. 15, 1877, with 
a collection of 703 bound and 998 unbound volumes and pamphlets. 
The building is located at 140 and 142 Dearborn Avenue. It is a plain 
brick structure, 40X60 feet, one story in height, and is but poorly 
adapted to the uses of the society. The library now comprises 
about 9,000 volumes and 28.000 pamphlets, including files of 
the daily newspapers; a splendid collection of the histories of the 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 223 

various counties of the northwest ; over 100 volumes of manuscripts 
and manuscript letters, including the extensive collection made by 
Hon. E. B. Washburne during his long political life. The latter are 
kept in Mr. Washburne's private vault. There is also in the possession 
of the society every printed report of Massachusetts relating to agri- 
culture, since 1837, and all the educational reports of that state for 
forty-five years ; the reports of the asylum of the blind since February, 
1829, which includes a report on the discovery of raised, printed let- 
ters for the use of the blind ; and most of the reports of the charitable, 
reformatory and religious institutions of the same state since 1 847. The 
historical matter relative to the early history of the northwest is very 
complete. There are portraits in oil of Gen. Grant, Columbus, Vespucius, 
Gen. Henry Dearborn, Edward Coles, the third governor of Illinois, 
Peter Menard, first lieut. -governor, W. B. Ogden, first mayor of Chi- 
cago, John Wentworth, John B. Bice, J. Y. Scammon, and others. The 
society owns 120x131 feet on the corner of Dearborn Avenue and 
Ontario Street, where the present building stands. It has had a fund 
of $62,000 bequeathed to it by Henry D. Gilpin, Of Philadelphia, and 
another of $13,500 left by Miss Lucretia Pond, the income from which 
is to be devoted to the purchase of books, maps and historical paint- 
ings. The library rooms are open every day except Sunday for the 
benefit of the public. Elihu B. Washburn e is president ; Albert D. Ha- 
ger, secretary and librarian ; Henry N. Nash, treasurer. 

The Union Catholic Library was established April 12, 1869, by a 
body of young men who formed a Catholic association for the purpose. 
It was first located in rooms in Oriental Block on LaSalle Street, and 
afterward in Kent Building on Monroe Street. The entire collection, 
except about 100 volumes, was burned in the fire of 1871. After the 
fire, rooms were secured in Pike Building on State Street, and a new 
collection begun. The library now contains about 3,000 volumes, and 
embraces books in all departments, save such as may conflict with the 
Catholic religion. The rooms of the association — consisting of suitable 
library rooms with a stage suitable for lectures and other entertain- 
ments—are at 121 LaSalle Street. They were occupied in May, 1885. 
The association now has about 460 members. Miss Mamie J. Graham 
is librarian. 

The Chicago Law Institute Library belongs to the Chicago Law Insti- 
tute, which Avas organized for the purpose of establishing a law li- 
brary- It is located in handsome and commodious rooms on the fourth 
floor of the new county court-house. The institute was incorporated 



224 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

in 1857, mainly through the efforts of Hon. Elliott Anthony, the char- 
ter being modeled upon the charter of the New York Law Institute. 
The debris of an old law library were purchased and at the time of the 
great fire in October, 1871, the library contained about 7,000 vol- 
umes, valued at $50,000. After the fire the work of reconstruction 
was promptly begun, and rapidly carried forward. The library was 
moved into its present quarters May 2, 1881. It now comprises about 
16,000 volumes, and is noted as bei g one of the finest collections 
of legal works in the United States. 

The Chicago Athenaeum, 50 Dearborn Street, maintains a reading 
room and library for the benefit of its members, llie reading room is 
provided with all the Chicago daily and several of the weekly papers, 
also the leading monthly magazines, and is open daily from 8 a. m. to 
9: 45 p. m. The library contains 1,050 volumes. During the past year 
300 volumes of choice reference books and standard literature were 
added. 

The Young Men's Christian Association Library, No. 148 Madison 
Street, comprises about 3,600 volumes, ior the use of the members of 
the association. The reading room, supplied with daily papers, maga- 
zines and leading periodicals, is open to all. 

The Private Libraries of Chicago include some of the most valuable 
collections west of the Alleghenies, both as to rarity and condition of 
tiie books collected. Some of the most noted collections have been 
made by E. G. Asay, Esq., a well-known lawyer, an unerring judge of 
works of value, and an untiring searcher after copies of rareness and 
exceptional worth. He was the pioneer book collector of the city, and 
at the present time is engaged mainly in accumulating works of the 
Elizabethan literature. He has now a library of nearly 1,800 volumes, 
including Shaksperian works, fine art works, and some famous illustrated 
copies. Many of these works are worthy of special mention. Among 
others, he has a set of Robert Burns extended from six to twelve vol- 
umes, with extra illustrations consisting of portraits and views, and in- 
cluding much other valuable matter, among which are twenty original 
songs and ballads in the autograph of the poet, and forty-seven letters 
by members of the Burns family. There is also a Shakspere extended 
from fifteen to thirty-six volumes by the addition of portraits, plates, 
drawings, water-colors, autographs and letters, among which is a letter 
written by Elizabeth to Henry of France ; one by Bacon, and a large 
number commenting on Shakspere. There is a Moliere which is ex- 
tended from six to twelve volumes with plates, portraits, and drawings ; 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 225 

and an edition of Scott extended from twelve to twenty-six volumes. 
A particularly valuable work is Lubke's History of Art, extended from 
two to six volumes by the addition of several hundred proof -plates. 
He has recently acquired a complete set of John Payne Collier's re- 
prims. In addition to these. Mr. Asay has over one hundred very 
costly books on vellum; Don Quixote extended from six to eight- 
een volumes by the insertion of all the known illustrations, as well as 
the original drawings by Stothard. A Walton & Cotton's Angler is 
among the collection, which has been extended to six volumes by 
the addition of 430 plates. He has a set by Motley in which is a num- 
ber of scenes of the period of the Spanish war, and a set of Prescott 
which contains, among other extra illustrations, a very curious doc- 
ument signed by Ferdinand and Isabella. The collection possessed by 
Mr. Asay represents a labor extending over a generation. Mr. George 
Armour probably has the most valuable private library in the city. It 
contains over 2,000 volumes, among which are very rare and unique 
works. In the main, the collection is made up of modern works, which 
are distinguished for the beauty of their paper, type, illustrations, and 
binding. He has also a very valuable collection of etchings. Mr. E. 
B. McCagg has a fine and valuable library of a practical character. 
Mr. Perry H. Smith's library contains over 1,200 volumes, a great por- 
tion of which is devoted to the first Napoleon and his deeds and 
times. N. Q. Pope, Esq., has a library of over 2.500 volumes, inclu- 
sive of 400 books of rare old plays of the Seventeenth Century. Many 
of his books are superbly illustrated, and there are 500 volumes of old 
English literature, which include many volumes of the collection of 
the Duke of Hamilton, the collection of A. H. Griswold, New York, and 
other noted collectors. He has a remarkable Chaucer which was once 
in the possession of the Duke of Sussex ; an uncut folio of Beaumont 
and Fletcher, and original editions of Walton's Anglers, Spenser, Green, 
and Marlow, together with a perfect first -folio Shakspere, 1623. 
Many of his books are in fine bindings, by Bedford, Eoger Paine, Be- 
viere Matthews, and other noted binders. The collection of L. Z. 
Leiter is large, valuable, and made up largely of Americana and spec- 
imens of Elizabethan literature. John A. Bice once had what was 
claimed to be the largest collection of Americana in the United States. 
He is now at work on a library which is intended to be a very fine one. 
D. W. Irwin has a fine collection, which also includes a fine set of Dib- 
dens. Mark Skinner has a large collection of rare American historical 
"works. Henry Willing has an excellent collection of English litera- 
ls 



226 MARQUIS 9 HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

ture and illustrated works. James B. Bunnion has one of the finest 
collections of plays in the country, to which he is constantly adding. 
There are many other private libraries in the city, quite a number of 
which contain rare and valuable books. The collections here given 
represent a cash value of fully a half million of dollars. 

Other Libraries, of both a general and special character, are numer- 
ous. Several of the public schools, and nearly all the private educa- 
tional institutions (see chapter on " Educational Institutions") of impor- 
tance, have good, libraries — no! ably the University of Chicago, the 
Northwestern University, St. Ignatius College, Allen Academy, the 
medical colleges, the theological seminaries, and many Sunday schools, 
churches and church societies, and charitable institutions, as well as 
various scientific, social and religious organizations. Some of these, 
owing to their special character, are quite valuable. Among the lead- 
ing libraries not already specially referred to in this chapter, are those 
of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, 1,000 volumes and 1,500 pam- 
phlets ; Dearborn Observatory, 1,000 volumes ; Chicago Medical Press 
Association, 188 Clark Street; State Microscopical Society; American 
Electrical Society— library at Chicago Manual Training School; Svea 
Society (Swedish), 1,600 volumes; Plattsdeuchen Verein, Low Dutch ; 
Chicago Turngemeinde, 3,000 volumes, mostly German ; Irish- Amer- 
ican Club; Dania Society. The Art Institute has recently begun the 
collection of works on art. The society for the Home Teaching of the 
Blind, No. 10 Arcade Court, has 300 volumes in raised letters. The 
Board of Trade has a library of 300 volumes ; the Young Men's Hebrew 
Society, 3,000 volumes ; the College of Pharmacy, 5,000 volumes. 



/ l&tv{& arxb .Sciences 

THE AKT AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS, AND THE PRIVATE 
ART COLLECTIONS. 

THE aspirations as well as the progress of Chicago in the higher 
walks of culture are well illustrated in the numerous- organizations 
which may be considered schools of art and science. And the archi- 
tectural splendor of many of her buildings, the scenery of her parks 
and boulevards, her high standard of musical effort, and her liberal 
patronage of all that is improving and elevating, are among the many 
tangible results of cultivation in these lines. 

The Art Institute, formerly known as the Chicago Academy of Fine 
Arts, was incorporated May 29, 1879, and is now located in a hand- 
some brick building at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Van Buren 
Street — the property of the association. Nearly all the art societies in 
the city occupy rooms in the building, or in some way make it their 
headquarters. It may, in fact, be termed the home of art in Chicago. 
The land, 54X170 feet, with the building originally upon it, cost $45,- 
000, but an addition was built to the Van Buren Street front at a cost of 
$22,000. The objects are to maintain schools of art and design, form 
art collections, and generally to promote art culture. The members 
are of two classes, viz : Governing and Annual. Upon the first named 
class, numbering at present 104, devolves the general management 
of the affairs of the institute. They pay an initiation fee of $100 and 
annual dues of $10. The annual members, numbering over 300, are 
entitled to all the privileges of the institute except the right to 
vote and to fill the office of trustee. The institute has a bonded debt 
of $60,000 amply secured by mortgage on real estate. Annual loan 
exhibitions of paintings, statuary, bric-a-brac, etc., are given, and the 
galleries, filled with loan objects of various kinds, are kept open 
throughout the year. In 1883 there were about 15,000 visitors to the 
exhibitions. The only acquisitions thus far made toward a perma- 
nent collection are two paintings — '•' The Beheading of John the Bap- 
tist," by Charles Sprague Pearce, and " Les Amateurs," by T. Alexander 
Harrison. A leading feature of the institute is the School of In- 

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struction, which has now been in operation for five years and which 
will compare favorably with any similar school in the country. It has 
been self-supporting for two years. The receipts for the year 1883 
were $6,588 ; expenditures, $6,539. The classes are divided into Cos- 




Art Institute, Michigan Avenue and Van Buren Street. 

tume Model, Nude Life, Painting from Still Life, Water Color, Drawing 
from the Flat and Cast, Composition, Perspective. Artistic Anatomy, 
Saturday Sketching, Evening Life, Evening Antique. The fall term in- 
cludes the time between October 1 and December 22 ; the winter term 
from January 2 to March 22; and the spring term from March 31 
to June 21. A matriculation fee of $2 is required, which is applied to 
the purchase of books for the library open to all students. For a full 
term, every day each week, the fee is $25. Evening Life Class, $10 



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per term, or $4 per month ; Evening Antique Class, $6 per term, or $3 
per month ; Children's Class, $10 per term of two days a week, or $6 
for one day. At the close of each term an exhibition of students' 
work is held, and prizes are awarded at the close of the school year. 
C. L. Hutchinson, president ; Edson Keith, vice-president ; L\ J. Gage, 
treasurer ; N. H. Carpenter, secretary. 

The Chicago Society of Decorative Art occupies rooms in the Art 
Institute. In its sales -rooms are displayed collections of works of art 
appropriate for decorative purposes. The working department of the 
society is in rooms especially arranged for the purpose. The society 
was organized May 24, 1877, its objects being to create a desire for 
artistic decoration and for the best methods of ornamentation ; to pro- 
vide training in artistic industries and enable decorative artists to ren- 
der their labors remunerative. Any person may become a member by 
the annual payment of $5. There are now about 200 members. The 
society maintains classes, and gives private lessons in embroidery. 
Pupils are admitted free for two months, when there is a demand for 
additional assistance to do the work. Exhibitions are held annually. 
The society also receives consignments from abroad, which are dis- 
played for sale in the sales-rooms. Mrs. John N. Jewitt is president ; 
Mrs. Clinton Locke is recording secretary ; Mrs. McGuire, correspond- 
ing secretary ; Mrs. John A. Yale, treasurer. 

The Chicago Art League occupies rooms in the building of the Art 
Institute. It was organized in March, 1879, its objects being to benefit 
the artists of Chicago, and to furnish a meeting place for the general 
discussion of art by its members. There are now twenty members, all 
young professional artists. Candidates for membership must submit a 
study in color, from nature. The initiation fee is $5, and the monthly 
dues fifty cents. Annual exhibitions are given in the galleries of the 
Art Institute. J. H. Vanderpoel is president ; S. Wilder, secretary ; 
J. L. Schlanders, treasurer. 

The Bohemian Art Club was organized in 1880, and occupies rooms 
in the building of the Art Institute. It aims to promote mutual im- 
provement and good feeling among local artists. Its members consist 
of ladies only. Candidates for membership are required to submit an 
original drawing or sketch from nature. The initiation fee is $3. At 
present there are twenty-three active and three honorary members. 
Annual exhibitions are held in the galleries of the Art Institute. Mrs. 
Theo. Shaw is president ; Miss Emma L. Trip, treasurer ; Miss Eva 
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The Chicago Pottery Club consists of twenty ladies interested in 
ceramic art. It was organized Feb. 27, 1883, and incorporated with a 
capital stock of $2,000. A cottage at No. 795 West Congress Street 
was leased, two kilns were erected and an efficient potter was employed. 
Eecently the club sold the kilns and rented the property to Mr. Joseph 
Bailey, who now executes the work of the members. There is also a 
studio at the pottery, conducted by Mrs. V. B. Jenkins, where pupils 
are received and given instruction. Annual receptions of the club are 
held at the Art Institute. Mrs. Philo King is president ; Mrs. V. B. 
Jenkins, treasurer ; Mrs. John B. Jeffrey, secretary. 

The Illinois Art Association was incorporated Sept. 15, 1882, for 
the purpose of collecting, exhibiting and distributing works of art. It 
has about 100 members, and a capital stock of $25,000. It holds 
annual exhibitions in November, and has also held one black-and-white 
exhibition. The association owns about twenty fine paintings by local 
and foreign artists, valued at about $12,000. The principal pictures 
are two hunting scenes by Philip Wormermann ; a portrait by Gilbert 
Stuart ; a large painting by A. Achilles Glesenti, said to be his most 
important work; and "Disputed Property," by L. C. Earle. It occu- 
pies rooms in the Illinois Club building at No. 154 South Ashland Ave- 
nue. The exhibitions and collections are open only to members of the 
association and invited guests. Jos. M. Bogers is president, and S. P. 
McConnell, secretary. 

Art Collections of considerable interest and value are owned by a 
number of citizens, some of them consisting only of pictures, while 
others include statuary. Among the fortunate possessors of such col- 
lections are : L. Z. Leiter, N. Q. Pope, Henry Field, J. Kussell Jones, 
Marshall Field, Samuel Nickerson, Geo. M. Pullman, Charles M. Hen- 
derson, Mrs. W. H. Stickney, E. B. Washburn, McGregor Adams, 
Geo. A. Armour, Phil. Armour, E. G. Asay. 

The Chicago Academy of Sciences occupies a five-story brick build- 
ing in the rear of buildings at 263 and 265 Wabash Avenue, the entrance 
to its rooms being through a long hallway opening on the avenue. It 
has a library of over 2,000 volumes, reading rooms, and a museum 
exhibiting a cramped display of about 30,000 specimens of living and 
extinct species, minerals, etc., besides a large variety of interesting and 
valuable material that cannot be shown for want of room. The insti- 
tution was founded in 1857, and incorporated in 1859. Its first im- 
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Kobert Kennicott, in an expedition to the Arctic regions. Mr. Kenni- 
cott Avas made the first director of the museum, but died on an expedi- 
tion to Alaska, and Dr. Stimson, of the Smithsonian Institute, was 
appointed to his place, bringing with him a fine collection of inverte- 
brates taken by himself in Japanese waters. These and many other 
valuable collections were destroyed by the fire of 1871, including the 
Smithsonian collection of Crustacea, said to have been the finest in the 
world. Dr. Edmund Andrews, M. D., LL. D., is president. f 

Dearborn Observatory originated in a movement inaugurated in the 
winter of 1862, by gentlemen connected with the Chicago University, 
to establish an astronomical observatory in this city. Subscriptions were 
secured and a telescope, at that time the largest refractor in the world, 
was purchased in January, 1863, from Alvin Clark, the noted lens manu- 
facturer of Cambridge, Mass., for $11,187 for the glass and $7,000 for 
the mounting. The instrument has an aperture of 18% inches and a 
focal length of twenty-three feet. The subscribers to the fund organ- 
ized in November, 1863, as the Chicago Astronomical Society, with 
Hon. J. Y. Scammon as president. The telescope was mounted and 
ready for use in April, 1866. The tower is ninety feet high, and the 
center of the telescope about 685 feet above sea level, in 40° 50' 1" 
north latitude, and 10° 33' 40.4" west longitude from the Washington 
meridian. There is also a transit telescope near the tower, the axis of 
which is 612^ feet above sea level. The tower is located on the west 
side of the Chicago University buildings. Prof. Truman H. Safford, of 
Harvard Observatory, was the first director of Dearborn Observatory. In 
1868 a meridian circle was purchased at a cost of $5,000. In 1874 
Elias Colbert was chosen director. In June, 1875, the Astronomical 
Society was reorganized, and in May, 1879, the present director, Prof. 
G, W. Hough, of Dudley University, N. Y., was appointed. The equip- 
ment and work of this observatory has caused it to rank among the 
leading observatories of the world. In the spring of 1882, Mr. Scam- 
mon resigned his presidency of the astronomical society, after occupy- 
ing that position for nearly twenty years. Dr. Hosmer A. Johnson was 
elected to the vacancy. C. H. S. Mixer is secretary. 

The Philosophical Society was organized Oct. 12, 1873, and owes 
its existence largely to the efforts of Eev. H. W. Thomas, D. D. The 
object is to foster a love of philosophy and the discussion of its princi- 
ples. There are about 200 members, of both sexes. Eegular meetings 
are held at Apollo Hall every Saturday evening. At these meetings 
papers are read and discussed, the subjects being limited to Natural 



234 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOR OF CBTCAGO. 

Science, Speculative Philosophy, Current History, Moral Philosophy 
and Social Science. Sidney Thomas is president ; E. T.Cahill, secretary. 

The Illinois Social Science Association occupies Boom 35, No. 99 
Washington Street. It was organized in October, 1877, for the dis- 
cussion and treatment of all questions pertaining to social science, 
including philanthropy, domestic economy, woman suffrage and the 
improvement of the condition of humanity. The active membership is 
composed Entirely of women, men being admitted only as associate 
members. Kegular meetings are held monthly, from September to 
May, at the club rooms of the Sherman House. The annual meeting 
partakes of the character of a convention, and generally continues 
for several days. Mrs. Helen E. Starrett, is president. 

The State Microscopical Society meets at the rooms of the Academy 
of Sciences. It was organized in 1868 under the name of " The Chi- 
cago Microscopical Society." In March of the following year the name 
was changed to its present form, and the society incorporated. Its 
purpose is to encourage and assist microscopical investigation. A val- 
uable library and an excellent instrument are owned by the association. 

The Chicago Electrical Society was formerly a branch of the Acad- 
emy of Sciences, but became an independent society in 1875. Its aim 
is to keep pace with the improvements and discoveries made in elec- 
tricity and electrical science. There are about 125 members. Meet- 
ings are held monthly at the Grand Pacific Hotel. W. E. Patterson, 
10 Winchester Avenue, is secretary. 

The American Electrical Association was organized in 1877 as a 
national society for the encouragement of electrical improvements and 
discoveries. No meeting has been held for several years, but the organ- 
ization is still alive. It has a small library of scientific books. C. H. 
Wilson, Pullman Building, is librarian. 

The Western Society of Engineers was organized May 1, 1869. 
The object is the advancement of the members in the science of engi- 
neering, and the promotion of the interests of the profession generally. 
There are semi-monthly meetings in Boom 20, American Express Com- 
pany's building, for the reading of scientific papers, and discussions. 

The Chicago Numismatic and Archaeological Society was formed 
for the promotion of antiquarian research through the coinage and 
other historical vestiges of the past. It was organized in 1879, and 
now has thirty-five members. It has a nicely furnished room at No. 
91 Dearborn Street, where regular monthly meetings are held. S. H. 
Kerfoot is president. 



'TSHacess of 'Htfrrws em eni. 

THE THEATEES, PUBLIC HALLS, MUSEUMS AND OTHEE 
PLACES OF AMUSEMENT. 

CHICAGO occupies a position as a patron of dramatic and musical 
art, second to no city on the continent. The first artists of the 
world regard Chicago as a center which is sure to reward true art lav- 
ishly, and no great artist who visits this continent ever dreams of leav- 
ing this city out of the line of engagements. Irving found it worth 
his while to alter his original plans, and give the city a second visit. 
Patti, Gerster, Hauck, Materna, Lucca, Eubensteiii, Gottschalk, Ole 
Bull, Nilsson, Bernhardt, Bossi, Sembrich, Albani, Salvini, Eachel, 
Janauschek, Brignoli, and scores of other great operatic and dramatic 
stars have shone in the firmament of the Garden City, and have never 
found their rays dimmed in the quality of its atmosphere. The first 
attempt at anything like permanent theatrical" entertainment was in 
1846. The well-known John B. Eice, who came to Chicago about that 
period, established the first regular theater in a small building which 
he erected on Eandolph, between Dearborn and State Streets for the 
purpose. The first opera given in Chicago was in 1800, in McVicker's 
Theater, by Strakosch, who brought out Brignoli and Patti. The next 
year J. Grau brought out an opera company, which filled a three week's 
successful engagement in this city. From that time to the present, 
Chicago has been an operatic center. In the winter of 1883-84, two 
of the greatest opera combinations in the world were here at the same 
time, and both received most liberal patronage. 

McVicker's was the second theater erected in Chicago, but really 
marks the beginning of the permanent drama in this city. McVicker, 
who had already become a star in two continents as a comedian when 
he made his venture as a manager in Chicago, erected his first theater 
on the site of the present one. at a cost of $83,000. It was known for 
a time as "McVicker's New Chicago Theater," but soon assumed the 
name which it now bears. It was opened on the night of Nov. 5, 1 857, 
with the "Honeymoon" as the leading piece, and the farce of the 
"Bough Diamond" in conclusion. In 1864 it was reconstructed at an 

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additional cost of $25,000. The season of 1871 closed. May 27, when 
it was again reconstructed at a cost of $93,000, and was opened on the 
night of August 20th, with the comedy of "Extremes." Within less 
than two months it was destroyed in the great fire, but nine months later 
the present building stood on the ruins of the old one. It was at that 
time the largest building which had been erected after the fire, and was 
opened with Douglas Jerrold's play bearing the significant title, "Time 
Works Wonders. " McVicker's was remodeled in 1886 at a cost of $1 45,- 
000, making the total cost of the theatre $538,000. It covers 82 X 
190 feet of ground and is surrounded on both sides and in the rear with 
wide alleys, and iron stairways lead to the ground from every part of 
the auditorium, thus securing the best possible means of exit. The 
theatre is lighted throughout with incandescent electric lights, and the 
interior decorations are unique and beautiful. The auditorium seats 
800, the balcony 461, and the gallery 500. There are twelve private 
boxes. "McVicker's" has always been a first-class theatre, and nearly 
all the great lights of the profession who have appeared on the Ameri- 
can stage have played to appreciative throngs in its spacious audito- 
rium. Mr. J. H. McVicker has been the proprietor and manager from 
the foundation of the enterprise, in the fall of 1857. McVicker's is on 
Madison Street, between State and Dearborn. 

The Academy of Music is a popular West Side theatre, located on 
Halsted, near Madison Street. It was built by Wm. B. Clapp, in 1871, 
and has survived a series of mishaps that threatened to summarily end 
its career — having once been burned to the ground. It was for a con- 
siderable time simply a variety theatre, but since 1880 it has presented 
a higher grade of performances and maintained a higher standing 
among the people. Many of the best combinations presenting light 
comedy attractions now include the Academy in their routes. Exten- 
sive interior improvements to the building were made during the sum- 
mer of 1884, and it is now one of the best furnished theatres in the 
city. The parquet and balcony have a seating capacity of 1,800. 
There are four private boxes. The stage is 34 feet wide and 38 feet 
deep. Wm. Emmett was succeeded by Daniel Shelby, the present 
lessee and manager, in 1881 . 

The Standard, Halsted and Jackson streets, was built in 1883, and 
opened December 31 by tne Fay Templeton Opera Company. It is a 
first-class play-house in every respect and is remarkable for the ele- 
gance and taste with which the interior is finished. It has a double 
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boxes. The stage opening is 36 feet, and its depth 36. Sixteen exits 
provide for the speedy exit of the audience. 

The Columbia (formerly Haverly's Theatre), 108 East Monroe Street, 
was opened on the evening of June 12, just ninety days from the time 
ground was broken for its construction. The opening piece was Shak- 

spere's " Twelfth Night," by Kob- 
son and Crane, who played res- 
pectively Sir Andrew Aguecheek 
and Sir Toby Belch. It has always 
been a first-class play-house, only 
the higher grade of performances 
being permitted, and its stage has 
been occupied by many leading- 
stars of both sexes. Henry Irving 
and his English troupe filled a 
three-weeks' engagement here 
while on their American tour. It 
is the largest theater in Chicago, 
and the extensive improvements 
made during the summer of 1884 
make it one of the most attractive 
places of amusement in the coun- 
try. Its seating capacity is over 
2,500. The parquet and dress cir- 
cle are furnished with 683 opera 
chairs; the balcony has 614 seats, 
and the gallery will seat 1 ,200 per- 
sons. There are twenty-one pri- 
vate boxes, each of which will ac- 
commodate four persons. The 
walls of the auditorium present some exquisite specimens of the painter's 
art. The entrance is through a spacious and elegantly decorated hallway, 
twenty-three feet in width, leading to the foyer and art galleries. The 
walls and ceiling of the hallway are covered with bronzed papier-mache 
of a unique and original design, with wainscot of tile and mosaic work, 
and panels of tiling on walls and wainscot illustrate scenes from Shak- 
spere. The fine-art gallery and reception rooms are elaborately fin- 
ished and furnished. The walls and ceiling are finished in papier- 
mache similar to the main entrance. They contain over thirty oil paint- 
ings of the modern school, and other works of art including several 




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pieces of statuary. The theater is well provided with exits and fire 
escapes, and is lighted throughout by the Edison incandescent electric 
light. Haverly Theater (formerly Haverly's Theater) had a predeces- 
sor located within the walls of the old post-office which were left stand- 
ing after the fire of 1871. The interior was rebuilt and the structure 
transformed into the Adelphi Theater, by W. W. Cole. In 1877 it fell 
into the hands of the well-known manager J. 
H. Haverly, who changed the name to Haverly's 
Theater. The building was torn down in 1881 
and the name was transferred to the new thea- 
ter, of which Mr. Haverly was also proprietor 
and manager Jan. 1, 1884, when C. H. Mc- 
Connell leased the theater and took charge. 
The Columbia Theater Co. succeeded in Feb., 
1885; J. M. Hill is president, and manager of 
the theater; J. S. McConnell is treasurer and 
acting manager. 

Hooley's Theater, on Eandolph Street op- 
posite the new City Hall, was built imme- 
diately after the great fire, and was opened 
to the public Oct. 9, 1872, just one year from 
the date of that event. The opening play 
was Kiralfy Brothers' spectacular burlesque, 
entitled "Enchantment." The theater run 
four seasons with an excellent stock com- 
pany, but it has since been managed on the 
combination system, which has held almost 
undisputed possession of the American stage 
for more than a decade. The entrance is 
through a hallway eighteen feet wide and sev- 
enty feet long. The box office is situated on the 
west side of the hall, and further in, on the 
same side, is the stairway leading to the bal- 
cony and gallery. The house will comfortably seat 1,412 people. The 
stage is 65X42 feet, the opening between the proscenium boxes being 
thirty-two feet and extending back to a depth of thirty feet. The pro- 
scenium is almost entirely of cast iron, and consequently fire-proof. 
There are twelve private boxes. The exits are spacious and easy, the 
interior arrangements comfortable and convenient, and the decorations 
handsome and appropriate. From the first Hooley's took high rank in 




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popular favor as a place of amusement, and has since steadily main- 
tained its standing. Originally intended for a first-class comedy thea- 
ter, it has always been more or less devoted to that line, from which it 
early became popularly known as "Hooley's Parlor Home of Comedy." 
But the heavier comedies, melodramas, and the best productions of the 
tragic muse have been presented on its stage by such brilliant stars of 
the theatrical firmament as Salvini, Neilson, Barrett, McCullough, 
and others. Its habitues have also heard Kellogg and other leading- 
representatives of the English 
and Italian schools of opera. 
From the first it has been under 
the management of its present 
proprietor, Bichard M. Hooley, 
the veteran theatrical manager. 
The Grand Opera House, 87 
and 89 Clark Street, can trace 
its descent through a series of 
calamities and vicissitudes of 
unusual severity and most un- 
common occurrence. About 
1860 the site was occupied by 
Bryan Hall, which for many 
years was of public service as a 
place for lectures, fairs, con- 
certs, and similar uses. Then 
it was transformed into Hoo- 
ley's Opera House, which was 
destroyed by the fire of 1871. 
The Hamlin Brothers erected 
on the site of the old hall a 
great billiard palace, which became world-renowned under the 
management of Tom Foley. In 1874, its owner turned it into 
what was called the "Coliseum," in which there was a garden, fount- 
ains, resplendent galleries, and a band of music, with the famous 
violinist, Le Clerque, at its head. As the work of development went on, 
a stage was added, and performances were given to great audiences. 
Then the senior partner, Mr. John A. Hamlin, took the matter in hand, 
remodeled the building and changed the Coliseum into "Hamlin's 
Theatre." It so remained until 1880, when it developed into the pres- 




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240 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

ent structure, known as "The Grand Opera House," by which term it 
is now popularly known. It was opened under its new title September 6, 
1880, with the "Child of the State," by the Hoey & Hardy combination, 
and has since been a first-class play-house in every respect, affording 
the public some of the most delightful entertainments given in modem 
Chicago. It has presented Salvini, that charming French actress; 
Khea, Modjeska, the Boston Ideal Company, and many other attrac- 
tions in which the finest class of light operas have been a conspicuous 
feature. It is artistically furnished and decorated, and is well venti- 
lated, heated and lighted, and the exits are numerous and ample. Its 
seating capacity is as follows: Parquet, 600; balcony, 400; gallery, 
GOO. John A. Hamlin continues in successful management of this 
interesting place of amusement. 

The Chicago Opera House is the newest and the largest theatre in 
the city. It has a seating capacity of 2,300. It was constructed during 
the early part of 1885, and was opened in August of that year. It is 
situated on the corner of Washington and Clark Streets, the most cen- 
tral portion of the city, and the starting point of nearly all the street 
car lines, and is said to be the only theatre in the United States, except 
the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, that is absolutely fire- 
proof. Every improvement known to modern theatrical architecture 
has been utilized to the fullest effect. The house is lighted by the 
Edison incandescent light throughout, over 1,000 lights being used in 
the theatre and upon the stage. The- decoration is in gold, bronzes, 
crimsons, buffs and blues, so artistically blended as to produce the 
most striking effect. The stage is one of the most complete in the 
country. It has a depth of 52 feet and a height of 70 feet; this enables 
the management to produce almost any kind of entertainment. The 
working machinery of the stage is as elaborate and perfect as are the 
provisions for the comfort of the audience. The large, comfortable and 
finely furnished dressing-rooms, constructed in accordance with the 
auditorium, are entire^ fire-proof. Within one year this theatre has 
taken a leading place among the places of amusement in the Northwest. 
Among the attractions that have given it this prestige are: Mary An- 
derson, Edwin Booth, Mme. Modjeska, Mapleson's Italian Opera Com- 
pany, Lawrence Barrett, Keene, the McCaull Opera Companies, Duff 
Opera Company, Helen Dauvray's Comedy Company, Clara Morris, 
Kiralfy, Robson & Crane, and other leading attractions. The lease of 
the theatre is held by the firm of John W. Norton & Co. for ten years, 
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Weber Music Hall, corner of W abash Avenue and Jackson Street, 
has a seating capacity of 400, and is a favorite place for readings and 
musical exercises, etc. 

Central Music Hall, corner of State and Randolph Streets, is the 



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Central Music Hall, State and Randolph Sts. 



ADLER & SULLIVAN, ARCHITECTS 



finest hall in Chicago. The building is seven stories in height, and 
covers 125x151 feet of ground. It is of stone from the Lamont quar- 
ries, and the portico over the entrance is supported by massive pillars 
of polished red granite. It cost $215,000. It was designed by Messrs. 
Adler & Sullivan, architects, who supervised its erection, introducing 
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into the construction a new scientific system of heating and venti- 
lation that has proven eminently successful. There are twelve estab- 
lishments devoted to trade on the State and Kandolph Street fronts, 
and the building also contains seventy rooms for offices and a small 
hall known as Apollo Hall. Central Music Hall was designed for the 
higher and more intellectual class of entertainments, such as classical 
concerts and lectures. It has no facilities for theatrical or operatic pre- 
sentations. The main entrance is on State Street, through a lofty hall 
eighteen feet wide by sixty-five feet long. The auditorium is 83x125 
feet in dimensions; is arranged with parquet, dress circle, and up- 
per balcony, all richly furnished, and has twenty-five private boxes, 
being capable of seating about 2,000 persons. It is also supplied with 
a fine double organ, erected at a cost of $14,000. The stage, which is 
without scenery or curtain, is 33 X 50 feet. There are numerous easy 
exits. The hall was opened on the evening of December 5, 1879, 
the entertainment being a colossal concert by the Apollo Musical 
Club. 

Apollo Hall is a small hall in Central Music Hall Building. It is 
specially adapted t© chamber concerts, rehearsals, etc., and contains 
400 seats. Nicely fitted up parlors and reception rooms are attached. 

The Exposition Building was constructed by the Inter- State Expo- 
sition Company. It is located on the lake front at the foot of Adams 
Street, is 240 feet wide, nearly 800 feet long, and 110 feet high, 
surmounted by three towers with ornamental domes, and has a 
broad gallery entirely around the interior of the building. It has an 
arched roof of glass in a frame- work of iron, which is the largest clear- 
span roof in the world. It was opened in the fall of 1877, with the first 
of a series of exhibitions that have annually attracted thousands of vis- 
itors to the city. It has since been the scene of many great assemblages, 
such as gathered at the May Festivals, and the grand instrumental con- 
certs given by Theodore Thomas ; at the nomination of Garfield and 
Arthur by the Bepublican national convention in 1880 ; at the nomi- 
nation of Blaine and Logan by the same party in June, 1884; and 
two weeks later at the nomination of Cleveland and Hendricks by the 
Democratic national convention. 

Farwell Hall, on the second floor of the Young Men's Christian As- 
sociation Building, is one of the principal halls of the city. It was 
formerly used for concerts and lectures, but it is now devoted mainly 
to exercises of a religious character. The main floor and gallery 
have seating capacity for about 1,800 persons. 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 243 

The Windsor Theatre is a new venture on the North side, located on 
North Clark, near Division Street, and was opened September 15,1886. 
Its seating capacity is about 1,500, the orchestra containing 150 seats; 
parquet, 170; orchestra circle, 400; balcony, 200; gallery, GOO. There 
are six boxes for four persons each on the first floor, two in the balcony, 
and twelve large boxes with a seating capacity of three each. The 
house is newly fitted up, and presents an attractive appearance. Only 
first-class attractions are played. P. H. Lehnan is the proprietor, and 
Bruno Kennicott is manager of the theatre. 

The National Theatre is a small frame building located at Nos. 26 
and 28 Clybourn Avenue. Seating capacity, 1,000. 

Weber Music Hall, corner of Wabash Avenue and Jackson Street, 
has a seating capacity of 400, and is a favorite place for readings and 
musical exercises, etc. 

The Lyceum Theatre, Desplaines, near Madison Street, has recently 
been rebuilt. It has a seating capacity for 1,100 persons. Variety 
performances. 

The People's, formerly a variety theatre, is now devoted to legiti- 
mate dramas. It is located on State Street, near Harrison. It has a 
main floor and two galleries, seats about 2,000, and was opened Sept. 
27, 1884. 

The Olympic, Clark Street, between Eandolph and Lake, is a popu- 
lar variety theatre, and one of the oldest places of amusement in the 
city. It has experienced numerous changes in name and management. 
Seats 1,100. 

The Criterion Theatre was first opened in September, 1880. It is 
situated on the corner of Sedgwick and Division Streets, has a seating 
capacity of 1,600, and is a pleasant place of amusement, presenting 
only the legitimate drama. 

Kohl and Middleton's Museum at No. 150 South Clark Street and 
No. 150 West Madison Street, respectively, are places of cheap enter- 
tainment, ten cents being the popular price of admission to each. 
Each contains a small stage for variety performances. The upper 
floors are devoted to museums of natural curiosities and works of 
ingenious mechanism. 

The Halsted Street Opera House, is a small frame building on the 
corner of Halsted and Harrison Streets, on the West Side, It seats 
about 800 persons. Miscellaneous plays and variety performances are 
given at intervals. 

Madison Street Theater, occupies the premises at 85 E. Madison 



244 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

Street, formerly known as Hershey Music Hall. A good class of attrac- 
tions are presented. 

The Casino Theater occupies McCormick Hall, on the corner of 
North Clark and Kinzie Streets. It is encircled by a gallery and seats 
about 2,500. 

Washington Driving Park has been noted in connection with Wash- 
ington Park Club in the chapter on "The Clubs and Societies," on 
page 146. 

The Chicago Driving Park lies just south of Madison Street and 
west of Garfield Park. It was until recently the only race course in 
the city. The grounds consist of eighty acres, held under lease, on 
which are a mile track, a grand stand with a seating capacity of 15,000, 
public and pool stands, club house, stables, grooms, cottages, etc. The 
association was organized in 1881, and has a capital stock of $100,000. 
There are 400 members, and the property and franchises are valued at 
$200,000. The meetings are for trotting and pacing only, and the 
most famous trotting stock of the country appears on this track, which 
is regarded as very favorable for speed. The stakes and purses for the 
season of 1884 were the largest ever offered in America, aggregating 
$280,000. The office of the association is at 116 East Monroe Street. 

Central Driving Park occupies, as tenant-at-will, an unused portion 
of Garfield Park grounds lying south of Madison Street. The associa- 
tion was formed in January, 1876, for social driving and the pleasure 
of the members in speeding and practicing their horses. There is a 
mile track and suitable buildings on the grounds. Regular " matinees " 
are held every Saturday during seasonable weather, but ho racing for 
stakes or purses is allowed. There are about 300 members, and non- 
members are allowed to purchase season tickets admitting them to 
the privileges of the grounds. W. H. Kane, 173 LaSalle Street, is 
secretary. 



THE NEWSPAPERS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT, THEIR 
FOUNDERS AND EDITORS. 

THE history of the newspaper press of Chicago, although compar- 
atively brief, affords interesting and instructive study to any one 
who wishes to trace the development of journalistic enterprise into 
great and powerful interests. The first newspaper published in 
Chicago was The Chicago Democrat, and its first edition was issued 
Nov. 26, 1833. The village had become an incorporated town, and 
the location attracted a printer named John Calhoun, who set up his 
press at the corner of Lake and South Water Streets. The paper was 
an ardent advocate of Jacksonian democracy, and was what was then 
known as " imperial "' in size — four pages of six columns each. It had 
134 subscribers, and the paying advertisements occupied a column and 
a half. The difference between this business exhibit and that of one 
of the great daily issues of to-day, is a fair measure of the difference 
between the Chicago of 1833 and that of 1884. Just three years from 
its commencement the Democrat passed into the hands of John Went- 
worth, under whose direction it grew in influence until 1840, when a 
daily issue was commenced. The second newspaper was the Chicago 
American, commenced May 8, 1835, by T. 0. Davis. It was a weekly 
s'x-column paper, Whig in politics. In April, 1839, under the propri- 
etorship of William Stewart, a daily edition was started — the first daily 
paper published in Illinois — but the publication ceased in October, 
1842. The Chicago Commercial Advertiser was started in October, 
1836, and ran one year. The weekly Tribune made its first appear- 
ance in 1840, with Edward G. Ryan, afterward chief justice of Wis- 
consin, as editor, but it was removed to Milwaukee about a year later 
and became the Milwaukee Journal. In July, 1842, the Quid Nunc, 
the first penny paper in the west, began an existence which lasted 
through thirty- seven issues. In the fall of the same year the Chicago 
Express appeared as a daily afternoon paper, and the successor of the 
American, but lived only two years, when it was purchased by a stock 
company and the name changed to the Evening Journal. This and 

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the next twelve years witnessed the inauguration of many newspaper 
enterprises of more or less promise, most of which " died and left no 
sign," except the one over the office door. In that period no less than 

fifty-six of these unfortu- 
nate ventures were born, 
and after a brief struggle 
for existence, were quietly 
laid away in the journalistic 
cemetery. During the same 
time, however, the most ex- 
tensive of the great news- 
paper establishments of this 
day were founded. 

The Evening Journal is 
the veteran among Chicago 
newspapers. It is the suc- 
cessor of the American, the 
first daily paper published 
in the city, by purchase of its 
successor, the Express, the 
second Chicago daily, in 
1844, when the present 
title was assumed. It is 
distinctly a family and busi- 
ness-man's paper, and has 
always enjoyed great confi- 
dence and liberal support 
of the best class of readers. 
It was started as a Whig 
newspaper, and was an ar- 
dent supporter of Henry 
Clay for president, but early 
affiliated with the Kepub- 
lican party, to whose prin- 
ciples it has ever since re- 
mained faithful. The pa- 

Evening Journal Building, Dearborn Street. per gained largely in pat- 

ronage during the war and became a very valuable property. It is 
issued every evening, except Sunday, at 3 and 5 o'clock, and has a 
weekly edition. The paper has eight pages with six and often seven 




MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 247 

columns to the page, and Saturdays twelve and sixteen pages. It sells 
for two cents per copy, or $6.00 per annum. The weekly is issued 
Wednesday for $1.00 a year. Since the change in form and reduction 
in price, the circulation has increased rapidly. It is printed on two of 
the fastest Bullock perfecting presses and is issued from the Journal 
Building, Nos. 159 and 161 Dearborn Street. The Journal was origi- 
nally owned by a stock company, but was sold to Kichard L. Wilson, 
one of the editors, at the close of the campaign of 1844. In 1849 the 
publishers were Kichard L. and Charles L. Wilson. Upon the death of 
the former in 1856, Charles L. Wilson became the sole owner, and con- 
tinued to be until his death, in 1878. His estate continued its pub- 
lication until 1881, when Andrew Shuman, its editor since 1861, and 
John R. Wilson leased the office. The establishment was destroyed in 
the great fire of Oct. 9, 1871, but the paper appeared the same after- 
noon, although someAvhat diminished in size. A year later it occupied 
the present handsome and commodious building. Here it was again 
visited by fire in December, 1883, but, as before, brought out its regu- 
lar issue without a day's interruption, from another office. The owner- 
ship was organized as a stock company in 1883. Mr. Shuman is its 
editor. Mr. Wilson, the business manager, has been connected with 
the paper since Oct. 9, 1871. W. K. Sullivan has been its city editor 
since 1874. The Journal has always maintained its reputation as a 
careful, conservative newspaper, clean and trustworthy, and keeps on 
" in the even tenor of its way " staidly, and yet keeping up with the spirit 
and progress of the times. 

The Times was started in 1854 as a Democratic paper, with the 
special purpose of serving the personal and political fortunes of Sena- 
tor Douglas. It maintained its party allegiance until 1868, when it 
took an independent stand, and has since ranked as one of the foremost 
expositors of independent thought in the northwest — with a tender 
recollection of its previous Democratic associations. It was a war Dem- 
ocratic paper until the issuance of the emancipation proclamation, 
which it opposed vigorously, and passed through some very exciting 
experiences during that heated period. Its publication was once sus- 
pended by order of Gen. Burnside, but the suspension lasted for two 
days only. It occupies an elegant fire-proof building at the corner of 
Washington Street and Fifth Avenue, built of Michigan sandstone, at 
a cost of over $600,000. It is 80X183 feet, five stories, and is one of 
the most thoroughly equipped newspaper establishments in the country. 
It has six Bullock perfecting presses, each of .which has a capacity for 



248 MARQUIS' BAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

printing and folding, with cut leaves, 10,000 sheets per hour, or an 
aggregate of 60,000 per hour. A handsome business office occupies 
the corner room of the first floor. The editorial rooms and the com- 
posing rooms are on the fifth floor. Pneumatic tubes connect the office 
with the telegraph office, and pneumatic and speaking tubes connect 
the different departments of the paper. The force of compositors 
averages about 115; the immediate editorial, reportorial and clerical 
staff about fifty ; and there are some 500 special contributors and cor- 
respondents throughout the old and new worlds. The Times is an 
eight page daily, e ght columns to the page, but frequently appears 
with a supplement of two, four, eight or sixteen pages. It also has a 
weekly edition of eight pages. The leading feature of the paper is the 
fullness and freshness of its news department, and it is fearless in its 
publication of everything that comes under the head of news. It was 
this policy, inaugurated by Mr. Wilbur F. Storey immediately upon the 
purchase of the paper in 1861, that transformed The Times from a 
losing concern threatened with bankruptcy, to one of the most valuable 
newspaper properties in the country. The original purchase was made 
by Mr. Storey. A. Worden became a partner in the concern in 1862, 
was succeeded in 1865 by Henry B. Chandler, who retired in 1870, 
leaving Mr. Storey the sole owner. The office was on Dearborn Street 
between Washington and Madison in 1871, and was destroyed by the 
great fire. A temporary wooden structure Avas occupied during the 
erection of the present building. Mr. Storey's health finally gave way 
under his labors, and for several years he was unable to give the paper 
any attention, and in August, 1884, Austin L. Patterson, for many 
years business manager of the Times, was appointed conservator of Mr. 
Storey's large estate, and on Oct. 27th following, Mr. Storey died. 
Chas. E. Dennett is managing editor of The Times, and Guy Magee is 
the city editor. 

The Chicago Tribune is the leading Eepublican paper of the north- 
west, and is not only a power in its party, but also a prominent factor 
of the commercial and industrial interests of the country. It owns and 
occupies a handsome five-story fire-proof building, of Lake Superior 
red sandstone, at the corner of Dearborn and Madison Streets, which 
was built at a cost of $200,000. The establishment is complete in all 
its appointments. In the basement are employed five Bullock and 
Kahler perfecting presses, with Kahler folding and cutting machines 
attached, having a capacity of 60,000 sheets per hour. The business 
office, one of the handsomest in the city, is on the first floor ; the edi- 



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250 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

the usual issue consists of twelve pages, the Saturday edition of sixteen, 
and the Sunday of twenty-four pages. The Sunday issue, which aver- 
ages over 60,000, is resorted to voluminously by advertisers, espe- 
cially in its ' ' wants " department, a fact which is at least partially 
responsible for the immense size of the Sunday paper. It also pub- 
lishes a weekly edition of , at present, 90,000 copies. It was started in 
July, 1847, as a Whig paper with free-soil tendencies, and in a few 
years, after passing through several changes -of firm and editorial man- 
agement, it came under the direction of Mr. Joseph Medill, when it 
entered upon a career of prosperity that has steadily carried it up to its 
present eminent position in the ranks of the American press. July 1, 
1858, it was consolidated with the Democratic Press, that paper hav- 
ing come to the position of the Tribune on the Kansas-Nebraska ques- 
tion. For a year or two it carried the title of the Press prefixed to the 
Tribune, when the prefix was dropped, and the ownership was organized 
as a stock company, with a capital of $200,000 which has not been 
changed. During the war it was a staunch, radical, and influential 
supporter of Lincoln's administration, and no agency rendered more 
effective service in that behalf among the people of the northwest. 
In 1871 its fine building, erected in 1868 at a cost of $175,000, was 
ruined by the great fire, and the present structure was erected on 
its site. The Tribune is the wealthiest paper in the city, and felt 
strong enough with its constituency in 1880 to make a powerful 
and effective fight against the candidacy of Gen. Grant for a third 
term in the Presidency. It has had a- number of prominent men con- 
nected with it, notably Gen. Wm. Duane Wilson. Gen. J. D. Webster, 
Dr. C. H. Pay, Horace White, Lieut. Gov. Wm. Bross, Alfred Cowles 
and the Messrs. Joseph and S. J. Medill. Mr. Joseph Medill and 
Messrs. Cowles and Bross have been with the paper for nearly thirty 
years. Joseph Medill is editor-in-chief; E. W. Patterson, managing 
editor ; Alfred Cowles, business manager ; Fred. Hall, city editor ; E. 
Colbert, commercial editor. 

The Inter Ocean is the stalwart Republican newspaper of the north- 
west, and ranks among the leading and most influential journals of the 
country. The paper was started March 25. 1872. by Hon. J. Y. Scam- 
mon. avowing itself in the first issue. " Independent in nothing— Repub- 
lican in everything." Its efficient service in the second Grant campaign 
of that year gave it a standing and circulation in its party that consti- 
tuted a strong foothold from which to achieve public favor. Hon. F. 
W. Palmer purchased an interest and became editor-in-chief in the 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 251 

spring of 1873 ; but the great panic, and the depression which followed, 
financially embarrassed Mr. Scammon, the principal owner, and in 
1875 the paper was sold to a new corporation, of which Wm. Penn Nixon 
was the principal member. Mr. Nixon had been business manager of 
the paper since the spring of 1872 ; he now became general manager 
as well as responsible editor, controlling every department. The Inter 
Ocean has probably gone back on Mr. Scammon's famous motto about 
independence, but it has kept in good standing with the party and 
improved as a newspaper. Since its change of proprietors it has had 
an increasingly prosperous career. It has a daily edition of eight 
seven- column pages, with frequent supplements of four, eight or six- 
teen pages, and issue;; a musical supplement of several pages every 
Wednesday. The weekly edition has eight seven-column pages, and 
enjoys probably the largest circulation of any similar publication in the 
west, ranging from 100,000 to 120,000. The Inter Ocean occupies a 
handsome five-stoiy stone front building at 85 Madison Street. It is 
supplied with one Scott and two Bullock perfecting presses, with 
machines attached to fold, paste and cut the paper, which it was the 
first to use, and which are the invention of Walter Scott, former super- 
intendent of its machinery department. The business office and edito- 
rial and composing rooms are all conveniently arranged and connected. 
A force of 105 is employed in the composing room, the immediate staff 
—clerical, editorial, rej)ortorial and others employed in the office, 
numbers about 110 persons, and the corps of special correspondents 
about 350. The immediate predecessor of the Inter Ocean was the 
Republican, which was started shortly after the war. Charles A. Dana, 
the well-known editor of the New York Sun, was engaged as editor and 
manager. He brought a numerous staff, and the publication was com- 
menced with all the advantages of money, brains and journalistic 
experience. It failed, however, and after the return of Mr. Dana to 
the east the paper was made a two-cent sheet, and placed in the hands 
of J. B. McCullogh, now of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In 1871 
the great fire obliterated the establishment, and the owners refused to 
proceed further with it. Mr. Scammon then purchased the Associated 
Press franchise, and in order to hold it continued the publication until 
everything was ready for the inauguration of the Inter Ocean. Wm. 
Penn Nixon continues general manager, and Wm. H. Busby, managing- 
editor ; J. R. Dunlop, city editor. 

The Chicago Daily News commenced originally as a penny evening 
paper without the associated press franchise, and has made a conspic- 



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uous success. It was started in Dec. 20, 1875, by Melville E . Stone, 
Wm. E. Dougherty and Percy Meggy ; but within a year the last two 
sold out to Mr. Stone, leaving him sole proprietor. During the same 
year Victor F. Lawson became a partner, and the firm became Victor 




Chicago Daily News, Fifth Avenue. 

F. Lawson & Co. Jan. 1, 1883, the partnership expired by limitation, 
and the ownership was reo :ganized as a stock company, the entire 
stock being and remaining the property of Messrs. Lawson and Stone. 
The circulation increased with great rapidity ; from 15,000 in 1876 it 
grew to nearly 40,000 within the two years which followed. In 1881 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 253 

a two-cent morning edition was started, but it progressed very slowly 
until it was admitted into the Western Press Association. There are 
now four editions of the News ; one in the morning, at two cents per 
copy ; one at twelve o'clock, another at three o'clock, and the regular 
evening issue at five o'clock — the last three being penny papers. In 
November, 1884, the combined circulation of the editions reached over 
200,000 copies daily. In politics the paper is independent. It is very 
enterprising, especially in the direction of exceptional and unexpected 
efforts. It is liable at any moment to astonish the community with the 
publication of a fac- simile telegram from the premier of England on 
some international question, or a letter from Bismarck giving his opin- 
ion on some matter of similar importance. There is no Sunday edition. 
The morning issue is a seven-column folio except on Saturdays, when 
it is a quarto. The later issues are eight-column folios. Five Hoe 
perfecting presses are employed to print the various editions. It owns 
the building it occupies at 123 Fifth Avenue. A force of about sixty 
compositors is employed, a clerical and editorial staff of about seventy- 
five, and an active corps of special telegraphic correspondents. Victor 
F. Lawson is business manager ; Melville E. Stone, editor. The Weekly 
News was founded in 1876. It average circulation is about 45,000. 

The Illinois Staats-Zeitung is printed in the German language, and is 
independent in politics, and the principal organ of the German-Ameri- 
cans in the northwest. It was founded in the spring of 1848, by Kobert 
Hoeffgen, whose entire capital amounted to $200. From this small 
beginning grew an enterprise which probably is second only to the 
Staats-Zeitung of New York. At the start the paper was a weekly, and 
the publisher was able to carry on the business by himself. He set the 
type, did the press work, acted as solicitor, collector, carrier, cashier, 
and editor. When money was scarce, he would take his pay in rags 
which he sold to the paper dealer, and in this way received really a 
higher price than if he had taken in mly cash. Dr. Hellmuth was 
editor in the autumn of the year in which the enterprise was started, 
and again in 1850. during which year it was issued twice a week. In 
1851 George Schneider became connected with it. and a daily edition 
was commenced with seventy subscribers, the weekly list being then a 
little over 200. Two years later the daily subscription had reached 
300, and in 1854 the paper had 800 subscribers. The circulation 
steadily increased, and the paper exerted a powerful influence on the 
attitudes of the German -Americans toward its party. In 1861 Wm. 
Eapp became the editor, and in the same year Lorenz Brentano bought 



254 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

out Mr. Hoeffgen's interest and a year later that of George Schneider. 
Soon thereafter A. C. Hesing bought a third interest, and in 1867 he 
became the sole owner, paying to Mr. Brentano $80,000 in cash for hi3 
remaining two-thirds. A stock company was subsequently organized, 
with a capital of $200,000, the stock being all owned by six persons, 
each of whom is actively connected with the paper. During the great 
fire the office was totally destroyed, but the paper was reissued within 
forty-eight hours after, and in due season was located in its present 
quarters at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Washington Street. It 
occupies a fine five-story stone front building, which cost, with the 
outfit of machinery and type, about $300,000. It publishes a daily 
edition of four pages, nine columns to the page, a weekly edition of eight 
pages and a Sunday literary edition called the Westen. The press-room 
is in the basement, an elegant business office on the first floor, and the 
editorial and composing rooms above, all conveniently connected by 
speaking tubes and dumb waiters. The paper is printed on two Clause 
perfecting presses, t mploys an average of fifty compositors, a clerical, 
editorial and reportorial staff numbering forty, and a large corps of corre- 
spondents. Herman Easter is editor-in-chief, having held the position 
since 1867. William Kapp is assistant editor. A..C. Hesing is presi- 
dent of the company ; Washington Hesing is vice-president, and C. F. 
Putsch, secretary and treasurer. Emil Mannhartd is editor of the Westen. 

The Neue Freie Presse is printed in German, and was established 
in 1871 as the Freie Presse, by the German-American Publishing Com- 
pany. It issues a morning and evening edition daily, and has a weekly 
and Sunday edition. It is independent in politics, with a leaning to 
Kepublicanism. It has a substantial circulation and business patronage. 
It is located at 92 Fifth Avenue. The daily issues are in quarto form, 
and the Sunday and weekly in octavo. Ki chard Michae 1 , the editor, 
has held that position from the start. Carl Lotz is business manager. 
The Saturday Evening Herald, established in 1876, is the leading 
society, dramatic, musical and literary weekly. It is published at 89 
Clark Street. The editors are Lyman B. Glover and John M. Dandy. 

There are at present 274 regularly issued papers and periodicals 
in Chicago, including the fifteen dailies. There are six semi-weeklies, 
134 weeklies (including Sunday papers), twenty-two semi-monthlies, 
eighty-eight monthlies and nine quarterlies. 

The Chicago Herald, 120 Fifth Avenue, is a two-cent morning 
paper, and was established in May, 1881, by Hon. Frank W. Palmer, 
postmaster, as editor-in-chief, W. D. Eaton, musical and dramatic 



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255 



writer of The Times, as managing editor, and Jas. "W. Scott, of the Daily 



National Hotel Reporter, as business manager. 



In 1882 Messrs. Palmer 
and Eaton withdrew, and 
John F. Ballantyne be- 
came managing editor 
till August, 1883, when 
John R. Walsh, president 
of the Western News 
Company,acquired a con- 
trolling interest, and 
Martin J. Russell, late 
editorial writer on The 
Times, became editor in- 
chief, Jas. W. Scott re- 
taining the business man- 
agement. The stock is 
owned by the three per- 
sons mentioned, and A. 
F. Hatch. In politics the 
Herald claims to be en- 
tirely independent, al- 
though until it came un- 
der its present manage - 

The Chicago Herald Building, Fifth Avenue. ment it was the organ 

of Stalwart Republicanism. In style it is modeled after the New York 
Sun, and typographically it is the handsomest daily in the city. It is 
a seven-column folio, except on Sundays when it is an eight- column 
quarto. It has had a severe struggle to achieve its present position 
as a fixed institution with a very promising future. H. W. Seymour, 
late one of the editors of The Times, is managing editor ; and Wm. A. 
Taylor, cityelitor. 

The Newspapers sketched in the foregoing pages include the lead- 
ing dailies of the city. The other dailies are as follows : The Evening 
Telegram, a penny paper, Democratic in politics, started in 1879 ; the 
Chicago Demokrat, German, established in 1883 (weekly in 1856), 
published every morning, and Democratic in politics ; the Arbeiter- 
Zeitung, German evening, started in 1872 as a weekly, added a daily 
issue in 1876, and is devoted to the interests of socialism ; the Scandi- 
naven is a morning paper, Republican in politics, wielding considerable 
influence among the Scandinavian people ; the weekly issue was started 




256 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

in 1865, and the daily in 1866 ; the Daily National Hotel Reporter is 
published every morning in the interest of hotels, and kindred inter- 
ests, has a wide circulation and was established in 1871 ; the Drovers' 
Journal, in the interest of the live stock trade, was founded in 1873, 
and has a weekly, semi-weekly and daily issue ; the Sun, established 
in 1868, is published every evening at the Union Stockyards; the 
Svornost is an independent Bohemian paper, published every morning, 
and weekly, and was started in 1875. Altogether there are fifteen 
daily newspapers. 

The Chicago Mail is the successor of the Evening Mail established 
in 1884, and of the Chicago Press established in 1883. It passed 
under the management of the Hatton-Snowden Company on June 16, 
1885, and over $100,000 has been expended since then in improving 
the plant of the paper, and making it one of the most popular and 
enterprising dailies of the country. It has four daily issues: 11 a. m., 
noon, 3 and 5 p. m„ besides frequent extras as the exigencies of the 
news department require. Its daily circulation averages over 50,000. 
Six months ago, the St. James Hotel, on Fifth Avenue, was transformed 
for its use into a model newspaper printing office, and it is now known 
as "the Mail Building." Ex-Postmaster General Frank Hatton, and 
Clinton A. Snowden, late of the Chicago Times, are its editors, assisted 
by C. McAuliff, E. E. Dillingham, and A. G. McCoy. Mr. John J. 
Flinn, formerly of the Daily News; the assistant manager, has the 
charge of the advertising business. It Las gained immensely in circu- 
lation and influence during the past year, and has taken a front rank 
among itj contemporaries. 

The Current, published from 123 and 125 La Salle Street, is a 
thirty-two page weekly journal, devoted to first-class current litera- 
ture, comments, discussions, essays and criticisms, regarding social and 
political movements, events of the day, and all timely topics and mat- 
ters of general and important interest. Among Western publications 
of its character it is without a rival, and it is to the West and Wetsern 
literature what the best monthly magazine of the East is to that sec- 
tion. Its circulation extends to every reading community on the 
continent, and embraces a considerable list of European readers. It is 
filled every week with bright, charming stories, timely essays, poetry, 
comments, revieAvs, critiques, literary notes, and its contributors 
embrace some of the best writers of the country. It receives praise 
from the severest critics, and commendation from the best writers of 
this and other countries. It was started Dec. 22, 1883. A. H. Harry- 
man is editor, and A. E. Davis is president and manager. 



THE MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS, THE DATES OF THEIR FORMA- 
TION AND THEIR LEADERS. 

HPHE musical societies of Chicago liave contributed much toward the 
-L promotion and cultivation of the musical taste of the people. The 
" Apollo " and ,; Mozart" Clubs are the leading (English) musical organ- 
izations, the Beethoven Society having recently disbanded. 

The Apollo Musical Club is the oldest existing English musical so- 
ciety in Chicago, and its work in advancing the standard of musical 
culture in this locality can hardly be over-estimated. It was organized 
in 1872, with S. G. Pratt as musical director. Mr. Pratt was succeeded 
by A. W. Dohn, who occupied the position for nearly three years, 
and it was under his directorship that the first public concert of the 
club was given. Carl Bergstein conducted the chorus during the sea- 
son of 1874-5. W. L. Tomlins was appointed director in the spring 
of the latter year, and continues to act in that capacity. As originally 
constituted the club was exclusively a male chorus, but under Mr. 
Tomlin's leadership an auxiliary ladies' chorus was formed, and has 
since been merged into the club proper, making it a mixed chorus, 
numbering at present about 150 voices. In addition to the 150 active 
members, there are nearly 500 associate members. Three regular sub- 
scription concerts are given each season, tickets of admission being 
issued to members only. The public are admitted to the annual 
Christmas performance of the Messiah. The membership includes 
some of the best vocalists in the city. The club has convenient club- 
rooms, and meets for rehearsals in Apollo Hall. 

The Mozart Club was organized in 1880. It was first known as the 
Mozart Society, but the name was changed to Mozart Club in 1883. 
During its first year the society had about ninety active singing mem- 
bers, but the number has been reduced from time to time until it 
is now about forty. The club gives three concerts annually in Central 
Music Hall. Tickets of admission are issued only to the associate 
members. The chorus consists wholly of male voices. It is devoted to 
the performance of oratorio and other choral music of a high order. 
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258 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

Hans Balatka was the first musical director. He was succeeded, after 
one or two seasons, by Marro L. Bartlett, who still directs the chorus. 
The club occupies rooms at 24 Adams Street. 

The St. Cecilia Choir, led by Wm. L. Tomlins, was organized Feb. 11, 
1883, to afford some of the lady singers of the May Festival chorus 
practice during the time between the festivals. The organization was 
not intended to be permanent. 

The Musical Festival Association was formed to meet a demand for 
the rendition of the great works of the most famous masters, that had 
grown out of the advance of musical culture. It was organized in 
1882, and gives a grand musical festival every two years. The festival 
occurs in May, and lasts five days, with concerts every evening, and 
matinee concerts on Thursday and Saturday. The association is sup- 
ported by the receipts from the festivals, and is secured from loss by 
subscriptions to a guarantee fund sufficient to cover the bulk of the 
expense. Fifty-nine prominent citizens subscribed for $1,000 to the 
fund for the festival of 1884. On this occasion there was an orchestra 
of 175 pieces and a chorus of 900 voices. The works of Wag- 
ner, Beethoven, Schubert, Haydn, Handel, Mozart, Gounod and others 
were represented in the programme, and the leading parts were exe- 
cuted by Nilsson, Materna, Winkelman, Scaria and others. The high 
perf ecti n reached by the chorus is due to the able and untiring efforts 
of Prof. W. L. Tomlins, whose skillful training produced an artistic 
success that was a grand feature of the concerts. There have been 
two festivals, the first in 1882, and the last in 1884, both given in the 
Exposition Building under the direction of Theodore Thomas. The 
loss on the first was $9,210, and on the last $5,817. The latter loss 
would have been much greater but for the sum of $9,000 received 
from the two national political conventions, which used the seats and 
other property of the festival association. N. K. Fairbank is president ; 
Millard Adams, secretary ; George Sturgis, treasurer. 

The Quartettes. — There are numerous quartettes in the city, among 
which the following are the most noted : The Chicago Quartette, male 
voices, organized in 1877, and reorganized and incorporated in March, 
1884; the Schubert Quartette, male voices, organized in the summer 
of 1883 ; and the Oriental Quartette, also male voices. The Schumann 
Quartette, organized in the fall of 1882, the St. Cecilia Quartette, 
organized in 1878, the Chicago Lady Quartette, and the Weber Lady 
Quartette, are all composed of female voices. The Harmonia Quartette, 
male and female voices, was first organized about ten years ago. 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 259 

German Singing Societies are numerous. They all partake largely 
of a social character and are, without exception, composed of gentlemen 
only. 

The Germania Maennerchor is the oldest German musical society in 
Chicago, having been organized in 1865. Soon after its organization 
the society was divided, some of the members forming themselves into 
a society under the name " Concordia." Soon after the great fire they 
Avere reunited under the original name. The first musical director was 
Otto Lob. At the time of the split Mr. Lob became director of the 
Concordia society, and Hans Balatka of the Germania. The society 
has rendered many operas of the highest order. The chorus consists 
of about thirty members. They meet for rehearsal in private rooms in 
Brand's Hall. There are about 250 associate members. The excellence 
of the music rendered by the society, and the delightful sociability 
that has characterized its entertainments have given it wide popularity 
among German people of refinement and culture. The concerts of the 
society are generally private. 

The Orpheus Maennerchor is the second oldest German musical so- 
ciety in the city. It Was organized in 1867. The first musical director 
was Otto Lob. It gives public concerts occasionally and was formerly 
a mixed chorus. The music is of a " popular " character. Meetings are 
held every Wednesday evening for rehearsal at the society's hall on 
West Lake Street. Gustav Ehrhorn is the director. 

The Chicago Musical Club is one of the latest 'German musical or- 
ganizations. It was organized October 14, 1882, with Hans Balatka as 
director, and he still retains that position. It gives concerts on a larger 
scale than any of the other German singing societies, and renders only 
works of the higher order. The plan is to give five concerts every sea- 
son. The concerts given the first year were all public, an admission fee 
being charged. Latterly the rule has been to admit only members of 
the club, except that each member is allowed to introduce friends once 
during the season. Behearsals are held every Monday evening in Koom 
24, American Express Building. The associate membership numbers 
about seventy and the active membership numbers thirty-six. 

The Schweizer Maennerchor was originally a singing section of the 
Schweizer Bund, but organized as a separate society in May, 1869. It 
cultivates the music of popular German authors, and gives three or four 
concerts every season. It has 115 members, mostly Swiss, and a 
chorus of thirty-five voices. It has taken prominent part in all the 
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260 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

parades of the Swiss societies, some of the latter being remarkably in- 
teresting representations of the history, costumes, customs, and pur- 
suits of the Swiss people. H. von Oppen, leader. 

The Eintracht Liederkranz cultivates sentimental and comic choral 
music for male voices, by popular German composers. It was organ- 
ized June 27, 1876, and has thirty members in the chorus, all Ger- 
mans. It is noted for its concerts, balls, masquerades, and picnics. 
Meetings are held every Friday evening, at 378 West Twelfth Street. 
The first leader was Edward Roos ; the present leader is Emil Zott. 

The Teutonia Maennerchor has fifty-two active and about 175 asso- 
ciate members, and meets every Tuesday evening in Aurora Turner 
Hall. The society sings popular music, holds monthly entertainments 
for members only, and gives three grand public concerts every season . 
Its excursions during the summer are largely attended. The musical 
director, Gustav Ehrhorn, has held the position from the organization. 

The Fidalia singing society was organized in December, 1872. 
Like the other musical clubs, it is composed of professional and asso- 
ciate members. There are about thirty-five of the former and the same 
number of the latter. The annual membership fee is $6.00. It is 
strictly a German society, having only German members and singing 
only popular German music. A limited number of public concerts is 
given each season, tickets of admission being disposed of by the mem- 
bers to such persons as they may select. The Fidalia meets in North 
Side Turner Hall on Thursday evenings. The director is H. von Oppen. 

The Turner Maennerchor consists of members of the Chicago Turn - 
gemeinde. It numbers about twenty-four voices, and meets in the 
North Side Turner Hall on Tuesday evenings. Its public singing is 
principally at entertainments given by the Turngemeinde. The director 
is Julian Heinze. 



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THE EXCHANGES AND OTHER TRADE ASSOCIATIONS, AND 
THE UNION STOCKYARDS. 

THE number of exchanges and other trade associations in Chicago 
indicate the opinion of her business men as to the value of combi- 
nations for the advancement of related interests. There are few impor- 
tant lines of trade, or few groups of kindred lines, that are not repre- 
sented by some organization of the kind. 

The Board of Trade is a great commercial exchange in which the 
transactions are confined to grain and provisions, and it is the largest 
and most powerful institution of the kind in the world. It was organ- 
ized in 1848, incorporated under the general statutes in 1850, and in 
1859 secured a special act of incorporation from the legislature. The 
building in which it has been located since 1872, is a large and sub- 
stantial stone structure, at the corner of LaSalle and Washington 
Streets, known as the Chamber of Commerce. It was built on the site 
of the structure occupied by the board from 1864 until it was destroyed 
by the fire of 1871, and was opened Oct. 9, 1872, just one year from the 
burning of its predecessor. Pending the construction of the new 
building, the board occupied rooms on Franklin Street. The exchange 
hall is eighty-seven feet wide, 142 feet long, and forty-five feet high. 
Within this space have been fought some of the greatest commercial 
battles in the history of trade. Here fortunes have alternately multi- 
plied and melted, the hand that records the fluctuations of the market 
registering the defeat of one and the triumph of another, as inexorably 
as if it were the hand of fate. But the historic arena has grown too 
small for the contests of the gladiators of trade. It was held under a 
lease for ninety-nine years, which has been canceled, and a larger and 
more elegant structure is now approaching completion. The new 
building has a front of 173| feet on Jackson Street, at the south end of 
LaSalle, and extends back 225 feet. The rear portion, which is occu- 
pied by about 100 offices, is 160 feet in height, and the front part, 
which contains the exchange hall, is 140 feet high, and surmounted by 
a stately tower, the tallest in the city, rising 304 feet above the ground. 

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The tower is tliirty-two feet square at the base, and built of masonry 
to the height of 225 feet, where each face is supplied with a clock dial. 
From the masonry to the pinnacle, seventy-eight feet, the construction 
is of iron. The entrances are large doorways supported by polished 
columns of gray granite, and the entire edifice is built of Fox Island 




Chicago Board of Trade Building, Jackson, Pacific and Sherman Streets. 



granite, at a cost of $1,500,000. Near the top of the east and west 
elevations are very striking and appropriate allegorical figures in gran- 
ite. The committee and directors' rooms are on the third floor. The 
president's office connects with the secretary's office, both being on the 
second floor. They are very elegantly finished in mahogany, with 
artistic wood mantels, and are exquisitely frescoed. Four powerful 
elevators give easy access to all parts of the building. Two flights 



MARQUIS 1 HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 263 

of polished vari-colored granite stairways lead from the Jackson 
Street entrance to the " exchange hall," which is 152X161 feet, and 
eighty feet high. The skylight of stained glass overhead is 72X75 feet, 
and there are seventeen windows, each eight feet and two inches wide 
and thirty-two feet high, arranged in pairs, with a 10X18 feet transom 
over each pair, the stained glass of the transoms bearing representations 
in heroic figures of Commerce, Agriculture, Order, Fortune. At the 
north end of the hall is a private gallery, with the president's rostrum, 
and ante-rooms in connection. The public gallery is on the west side 
of the hall. Smoking, cloak and private rooms for the members are 
conveniently located adjoining the hall. It is supplied with tables 
systematically arranged for the display of samples ; the grain and pro- 
vision trades each has its separate ''pit ;" the bulletins are conveniently 
placed ; the telegraphic service is complete and thorough. The build- 
ing and hall are undoubtedly the grandest of the kind in the world. 
The membership of the board numbers about 2,000, which is intended 
to be substantially the limit. The membership fee is $10,000, but the 
places of retiring members can usually be purchased for $3,500 to 
$4,500. No transaction is allowed on the board involving less than 
5,000 bushels of grain or 250 packages of pork or lard. The sessions 
of the board are from 9:30 a. m. to 1 p. m., and from 2 to 2:30 p. m. 

The Produce Exchange was incorporated June 11, 1874, and has 
nearly 500 members engaged or interested in the trade in butter, 
cheese, eggs, potatoes, flour, fruits, vegetables, etc., in Avhich lines the 
transactions are conducted. The exchange rooms and hall are at the 
corner of Lake and Clark Streets. The rooms are kept open for private 
transactions from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., daily. 'Change hours are from 2 to 

3 P. M. 

The Chicago Mining Exchange started out in 1882, with a fair 
prospect of success, but there has been a great falling off in interest 
and attendance. There are over 100 members, and meetings are held 
daily, between 11 a. m. and 2 p. m., at Room 24 Portland Block. Calls 
are made at 11:30 each day, but very little business transacted. 

The Lumberman's Exchange is one of the strongest trade organi- 
zations in the city. It collects and distributes statistics of the lumber 
trade, maintains a judicious system of classification by careful inspec- 
tion, and generally takes an active part in everything calculated to 
advance the lumber interests. Its rooms, at 252 South "Water Street, 
are much visited by men interested in the lumber business, from all 
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The Chicago Open Board of Trade is similar in its purpose and 
methods to the Board of Trade, commonly called the '■ Big Board." Its 
operations are confined to the same commodities, though they may be 
handled in smaller amounts, the minimum limit of deals being 1,000 
bushels of grain or twenty-five packages of lard or meats. The quota- 
tions of the "Big Board" are the guide in all trades in the Open Board, 
„, , , and are promptly received and 

bulletined. The Open Board was 
organized Dec. 15, 1877, and in- 
corporated May 12, 1880, and 
was first located in Calhoun Place, 
near the Chamber of Commerce. 
June 2, 1884, with a member- 
ship of about 400, it moved into 
new and spacious quarters on Pa- 
cific Avenue. The building is a 
fine six- story edifice of red press- 
ed brick. The exchange hall, on 
the ground floor, is eighty feet 
wide, 100 feet long, and thirty 
feet in height to the sky-light, 
which measures 45x50 feet. The 
membership fee is $500, and the 

Open Board of Trade, Pacific Avenue. annual dues $50. The daily ses- 

sions are open to spectators, from which fact it derived the name 
" Open Board." The sessions are held daily from 9:30 a. m. to 1 p. m., 
and from 2 to 2:30 p. m. 

The Chicago Drug, Paint and Oil Exchange was organized in 1877, 
and is located at No. 51 Wabash Avenue. It has about twenty-five 
members, including the leading jobbers, wholesale dealers and manu- 
facturers in the lines to which it is devoted. 'Change hours are from 
11:30 a. m. to 12 m. 

The Commercial Exchange has 150 members, and meets daily 
between the hours of 11:30 and 12:30, in its hall on the corner of 
Dearborn and Kandolph Streets. It was incorporated Nov. 25, 1882. 
Its membership is limited to residents of Chicago, engaged in the 
wholesale grocery business and kindred branches. The transactions 
are, as a rule, not speculative, but involve the actual transfer of goods. 
Telegraphic reports of concurrent transactions in the New England 
fish markets, the New York and Boston sugar markets, and the New 




MARQUIS 1 HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 265 

York Coffee Exchange, are received and posted during the sessions, and 
all trades in those lines are based on those quotations. 

The Chicago Stock Exchange is situated at 126 Washington Street. 
The membership includes the leading bankers and brokers in the city, 
and many prominent merchants. Many members of the New York and 
Philadelphia stock boards are also members of the Chicago Stock Ex- 
change, there being at present 750 on the rolls. Two " calls " are held 
daily, one for the sale of bonds and one for stocks. The exchange was 
established in May, 1882. 

The Chicago Real Estate Board, Kooms 5 and 5| National Life 
Building, 157 to 163 LaSalle Street, is an exchange, incorporated in 
1883 as The Chicago Eenting Agents' Association, but filed new articles 
of incorporation under the present name, June 4, 1884. It was formed 
for purely business purposes. The daily call-board sessions are held 
from 12 m. to 1 p. m. The membership emb aces about eighty of the 
leading real estate agencies. 

The Builders' and Traders' Exchange was organized Jan. 21, 1884, 
and now has nearly 500 members, composed of mechanics, manufact- 
urers, and traders whose avocations connect them with the building 
trades or industries. The exchange rooms, at No. 159 LaSalle Street, 
are open daily. 

The Union Stock Yards, Halstedand Fortieth Streets, are the center 
of the greatest live stock trade in the world. They occupy a large por- 
tion of a tract of 375 acres, the pens taking up 240 acres and having 
a capacity for 180,000 head of hogs, 45,000 head of cattle and 15,000 
head of sheep, or a total of 240,000 head of stock of all kinds. There 
are 100 acres under cover, and 180 acres of open pens. The stables 
afford accommodation for 1,500 horses. All important railroads enter- 
ing at Chicago connect with the yards, and the company has 100 miles of 
railroad track, including switches, to facilitate the receipt and shipment 
of stock. Telegraph, mail, and banking facilities are provided on the 
grounds. The exchange hall is in a building covering 60X240 feet, in 
which are the offices of the company, and of numerous firms engaged 
in the live stock trade. There are thirty -two extensive packing houses 
in the immediate vicinity of the yards. The yards were first opened 
Dec. 25, 1865, and have since been greatly enlarged and improved. 
The receipts at the stockyards during the year 1883 were : Live hogs, 
5,640,625; dressed hogs, 55,538; cattle, 1,878,944; sheep, 749,917. 
The yards are owned by the Union Stock Yards and Transit Com- 
pany. 



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Trade Associations : — The principal trade associations, other than 
exchanges, are shown in the following table : 



NAME. 



Anthracite Coal Association . . 

Board of Marine Underwriters 

Boss Horse Shoers' Protective 
Union 

Boss Horse Shoers' Protective 
Association 

Chicago Board of Underwrites 

Chicago Boot, Shoe and Leath- 
er Association 

Chicago Briokmakers' Asso'n. 

Chicago Drapers' and Tailors' 
Exchange 

Chicago Jewelers' Association. 

Chicago Liveryman's Associ'n. 

Chicago Master Masons' and 
Builders' Association 

Chicago Master Plumbers' As- 
sociation 



™2 

o' rt 

1882 

1875 

1884 

1878 
1883 

,1878 
1876 

1882 

1880 

1882 


3-2 

15 

50 

25 
25 

25 

65 

75 

145 




( 

( 
( 

( 
1 

1 

1 
1 
i 

1 



NAME. 



Chicago Betail Coal Dealers" 
Association 

Chicago Vessel Owners' Ass'd. 

Chicago Cigar Manuf'rs' and 
Dealers' Association 

Custom Cutters' Association.. 

Lumber Manufac'rs' Associa- 
tion of the North West ... 

National Association of Lum- 
ber Dealers 

Pork Packers' Association 

Bail way Exchange 

State Protective Association 
(liquor dealers) 

Underwriters' Exchange 

Watchmakers' and Jewelers' 
Association 

Western Railroad Association . 



o -rH 



1883 
1881 



1877 



1873 

1877 
1872 

1884 



80 



1880 
1867 






125 



180 
25 

100 

1000 
30 
30 

750 
25 



82 



The Lumber Manufacturers' Association of the Northwest was 
organized March 18, 1873. It aims to further the interests of its 
members, by united action among them, in everything that pertains to 
operations in lumber in Chicago and the Northwest. It collects and 
publishes, annually, statistics touching the prices, sales, production 
and consunxption of lumber and other matters of general interest. 
E. S. Hotchkiss, 252 South Water Street, is secretary. 

The Chicago Clearing House Association was organized in 1865, 
and incorporated in 1882. The object was to substitute a safer and 
more convenient method of settlements and collections between banks 
than the old-time system of messengers. Nineteen banks send their 
messengers at eleven o'clock every morning to the Clearing House at 
No. 80 LaSalle Street, and there in a few minutes transact the whole 
business that previously required several hours' time. The "losing 
banks," as those are called which bring in a smaller amount of checks 
on other banks than the latter bring in on them, are required to settle 
the balance before 12:30 o'clock, and the "gaining banks" come in 
after that time for balances due them. Many private bankers make 
their clearings through members of the Clearing House Association. 
About $1,400,000 change hands through the Clearing House every day. 



THE EARLY TAVERNS AND THE LEADING HOTELS OF TO-DAY 
AND THEIR RATES. 

THE first tavern in Chicago was built in 1828 by James Kinzie, and 
was opened in 1829, by Archibald Caldwell, as Caldwell's Tavern. 
It was located on Wolf Point, and was afterward' known as Wolf Tav- 
ern. An illustration on page 11 shows the building as it appeared in 
1830. Samuel Miller opened a tavern on the east side of the " North 
Branch " in 1830, which he called the " Miller House." The building, 
a small log cabin, which afterward became the famous Sauganash Hotel, 
was improved, by a frame addition, in 1831, by Mark Beaubien, and was 
the first frame house in the city, and is generally spoken of as the first 
hotel in Chicago. It stood on the south side of Lake Street at the 
corner of Market. The Green Tree Tavern, corner of Lake and Canal 
Streets, was built in 1833. The first Tremont House was also built in 
1833. From this date hotel enterprises increased rapidly with the 
growth of the village and city. The Green Tree, afterward the Chicago 
Hotel, and later the Lake Street House, ceased its existence as a hotel 
in 1859. In 1880, the building, a quaint frame structure, was removed 
to No. 35 Milwaukee Avenue, where it still stands. In 1835 the West- 
ern Hotel, a two-story frame building which still stands at the south- 
east corner of Canal and Randolph Streets, was erected. The Lake 
House was also built in 1835, at the corner of Kinzie and Rush 
Streets. It was a brick structure and the first really costly hotel in the 
city, the cost of building and furniture being about $100,000. But it 
is with the hotels of the present that we have to do. The hotel facil- 
ities of Chicago to-day are equal to, if not superior to any city in the 
country, if not in the world. 

The Palmer House, corner State and Monroe Streets, is one of the larg- 
est and grandest hotels in the world. It occupies the site of the old Palmer 
House which was destroyed by the great fire. It was opened for the 
reception of guests Nov. 1, 1873. The cost of the building, which is 
fire proof, was $2,000,000, and over $500,000 were expended in fur- 
nishing it. It is six stories in height above the basement, and has a 



268 MARQUIS' BAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

frontage on State Street of 281 feet, and on Monroe Street of 253 feet, 
and an L extending through to Wabash Avenue 131 feet in width. The 
fronts are of stone. An additional story was added in 1884 and 
the hotel now contains 815 rooms. The grand hall through which 
the rotunda is reached is 28 feet wide and 70 feet long. Its wainscot- 
ing is of thirty -four different kinds and colors of marble. The rotunda 
is 64X106 feet, and the floor, office counters and staircase are all of 
Italian marble. The grand reception room and the Egyptian parlor, 
are furnished in the most artistic and luxuriant manner. The bridal 
chambers of the Palmer are celebrated ; the furniture is unique and 
costly, and in the frescoes are cupids and doves, wreaths of flowers and 
filmy veils of lace. The ball room is 40X140 feet, and through its 
center is a row of fluted columns finished in artistically blended colors. 
The grand dining hall is 64 feet wide and 76 feet long ; the archi- 
tectural decorations are in old Corinthian order, treated in modern 
French style. The club room is 60X30 feet, the floor is of marble tiling, 
and the sides are laid in colored tiling to the height of four feet. The 
ladies' and gentlemen's cafe is in the rear of the rotunda, and the 
lunch room is situated on the State Street front, just south of the main 
entrance. The Palmer is conducted on both the American and Euro- 
pean plan. The charges range from $3.00 to $6.00 per day for room 
and board, and from $1.00 to $2.00 for room without board. It is one 
of the great institutions of Chicago ; and at times of popular excite- 
ment the focus of interest is here ; and it is here that the prominent 
political leaders of the Democratic party congregate to exchange 
views and discuss topics of political moment. The hotel was built by 
Potter Palmer, and is now owned by the Palmer House Company. 
Willis Howe is manager. 

The Grand Pacific Hotel fronts on Clark, Jackson, LaSalle and 
Quincy Streets, and covers an entire half-square of ground. It stands 
on the site of the Pacific Hotel which had just been completed at the 
time of the great fire. Like its predecessor, it was built by the Pacific 
Hotel Company, but is much larger and costlier than the original struct- 
ure. It is just across the street from the postoffice on the east, and the 
new Board of Trade Building on the south. Its erection was com- 
menced soon after the great fire of 1871, and it was completed and 
opened June 3. 1873. The hotel is conducted on the American plan, 
the terms being from $3 to $5 per day. The building is of a mixed 
style of architecture, the three main fronts being of stone. It is six 
stories high above the basement, massive and solid, and one of the 



270 MARQUIS 1 HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

ornaments and attractions of the city. Near the main entrance on 
Clark Street is a grand court 70X70 feet, in which is the office, com- 
manding a view of each entrance. Near the LaSalle Street entrance, 
and also connected with the grand court, is an ''exchange" 100X60 
feet. The parlors, dining halls and kitchen and culinary depart- 
ment are on the second floor. The grand parlor fronts on Jackson 
Street, and is 100X24 feet. The dining room is 130X60 feet. A grand 
promenade from the parlors to the dining room is 30X130 feet, and the 
corridors are twelve feet wide. In all there are over 500 rooms in the 
house. The annual game dinner given at the Grand Pacific has become 
famous, and the cuisine on all occasions is noted for its excellence. 
The Grand Pacific is the meeting place of many clubs and societies, not 
only local but also state and national in character. It is also the principal 
headquarters in the west of the Kepublican party, and has been the 
scene of many exciting political events. The cost of the building was 
$1,300,000, and the furniture $360,000. The present proprietors, 
John B. Drake &■ Co., took charge Dec. 25, 1874. 

The Tremont House, on the corner of Dearborn and Lake Streets, 
is one of the oldest, best and most attractive hotels in the city. It was 
first erected in 1833, on the opposite corner of the street, rebuilt in 
1839-40 on the present site, and again in 1850. It was remodeled 
and greatly improved in 1861, the entire structure being raised about 
seven feet, and new foundations placed under it ; and in 1871 it was 
destroyed by the great fire. The present structure was completed in 
1874 at a cost of about $700,000, including the furniture. The Tre- 
mont was founded by Hanson Sweet, and passed into the hands of Ira 
and James Couch in 1836, and is still owned by the Couch estate. The 
building far surpasses its predecessors in size and architectural beauty, 
and it is one of the most luxuriantly furnished hotels in the country. 
It covers 50.000 square feet of ground. It is six stories high above the 
basement, crowned with five towers of two stories each. The fronts 
are of Amherst (Ohio) sandstone, carved and otherwise ornamented. 
The office is in the rotunda. 50X100 feet, on the ground floor, and is 
a model of architectural art. It is surmounted by lighted domes and 
the woodwork of black walnut is very elaborate. The parlors, drawing 
and reception rooms are on the second floor, as is also the culinary 
department. The grand dining hall is 64x100 feet. There a"e about 
300 private rooms for guests. The Tremont is conducted on the Ameri- 
can plan, the rates ranging from $3.00 to $4.00 per day. It is popu- 
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271 



other first-class hotel in the city, and in the midst of a busy wholesale 
district. John A. Rice & Co., the present proprietors, took charge in 
1879. 

The Leland is one of the best conducted hotels in the United States. 
It is situated on the southwest corner of Michigan Boulevard and Jack- 
son Street, overlooking Lake Park and the broad expanse of Lake 
Michigan, the view being one of great beauty and grandeur. The 
great Exposition Building is just across the street on the northeast; 




The Leland Hotel, Michigan Boulevard, Corner Jackson Street. 

the new Pullman Building— which is said to be the finest business block 
in the world— stands just one square north ; the Chicago Art Institute 
is removed one square to the south, while the Postoffice and Custom 
House are only three squares away on the west ; and the new Board of 
Trade Building and many other places of interest and note are in the 
neighborhood. The building is an imposing brick structure. It is six 
stories high above the basement and is massive and solid, and essen- 
tially fire proof. Each of the main fronts is provided with numerous 
iron balconies, and iron fire-escapes, accessible from hallways on each 
floor, furnish easy means of escape in case of fire. The hotel contains 
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exclusive thaD any other hotel in Chicago, being the stopping place of 
the very best class of people and the permanent home of many wealthy 
and aristocratic citizens. It is conducted on the American plan, the 
rates ranging from $3.00 to $5.00 per day. Warren F. Leland has 
been proprietor and manager since April, 1881. 

McCoy's European Hotel is the best appointed and most elegant 
hotel west of New York, conducted exclusively on the European plan ; 
and it is the only strictly first-class European hotel in Chicago. Its 
site was well chosen, being easily accessible from all parts of the city. 
It is just across the street from the Rock Island and Lake Shore Depot, 
and only one square away from the postoffice ; and it is adjacent to the 
New Board of Trade and convenient to the large wholesale and retail 
stores and principal places of amusement and interest. The locality 
is improving with greater rapidity than any other portion of the city, 
and many massive and handsome business blocks have recently been 
erected in the neighborhood. The building is seven stories in height 
above the basement, and is crowned with three ornamental towers. It 
was designed by the well-known architect, Greg. Vigeant, is essentially 
fire proof, and is one of the best constructed and most substantial 
hotels m the world. The walls are of red pressed brick, and the col- 
umns, girders, towers, mansard, gables and stairways are all of iron. 
There is a large double fire escape on each front of the building, imme- 
diately accessible from hallways on each floor, and each contiguous 
window is provided with a spacious iron balcony. And a complete iron 
stairway in the court in the rear, extending the entire height of the build- 
ing, also affords easy means of escape in case of fire. The building 
has a frontage of 95^ feet on Clark Street and 110 on Van Buren, and a 
court in the rear separates it from all other buildings. There are 200 
rooms for guests, and each apartment is luxuriously furnished, and pro- 
vided with all modern conveniences. The finish of the first two stories 
is of hard wood — oak. The rotunda, in which is situated the office 
commanding a view of each entrance, is located on the second floor. 
It is reached by wide stairways from both streets, and by a superb 
hydraulic elevator near the Van Buren Street entrances. The three 
main parlors and the reception and club rooms are on the same floor, 
and all the rooms on the entire floor are so arranged that they can be 
thrown into one grand salon, at pleasure. The restaurant is on the 
first floor, and adjoining the grand dining-hall are convenient private 
dining and toilet-rooms. The five upper stories are divided into suites 
and single rooms, each with natural light and perfect ventilation, and 




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a new and original system of alarms by which every guest may be 
immediately awakened, this being the only hotel in the Avorld having 
this device. Everything seems to have been done to make the house 
homelike, comfortable and attractive. The rates range from $1 a day 
upwards. The cost of the hotel was about $500,000. It was CDm- 
pleted and opened June 1, 1884, and has rapidly grown in popular 
favor. Wm. McCoy is the sole owner and proprietor. The first Mc- 
Coy's Hotel was located at 140 and 142 Madison Street, and was orig- 
inally called Burk's Hotel. Mr. McCoy bQught it in 1879, and afterward 
changed the name to McCoy's Hotel. 

/ The Sherman House is on the corner of Clark and Kandolph 
Streets, opposite to the new City Hall. The present building was 
opened to guests in the spring of 1873. It is seven stories high above 
the basement and has a tower on each front rising two stories higher. 
The fronts are of Kankakee stone, light brown in color, and the entire 
building is solid and substantial. It fronts 181£ feet on Clark Street and 
161 feet on Kandolph. There are about 300 rooms for guests. The 
dining room is 115x144 feet. The Sherman was furnished at a cost 
of $360,000. The building cost $600,000. As a family hotel it is 
unexcelled, and it is a popular resort for the best class of commercial 
travelers. It is the headquarters of the State Board of Agriculture and 
the meeting place of numerous societies. The first hotel on the site 
was built in 1836 and was called the City Hotel. This was supplanted 
in 18El by a better building which was destroyed by the great fire, 
1871. The Sherman took its name from F. C. Sherman, formerly 
mayor of the city, by whom it was built. The rates are from $3.00 
to $5.00 per day. J. Irving Pearce has been the proprietor since 
July, 1882. 

Other Hotels.— The following are among the better class of hotels 
not heretofore mentioned : Clifton House, corner Wabash Avenue and 
Monroe Street, 165 rooms, rates $2.50 to $3.00 per day. Commercial 
Hotel, Lake and Dearborn Streets, the great $2.00 per day house 
of the city ; 300 rooms. Matteson House, Wabash Avenue and Jackson 
Street, 200 rooms, $2.50 to $3.00 per day. Briggs House, Kandolph 
Street, corner Fifth Avenue, 150 rooms, $2.00 to $2.50 per day. 
Atlantic Hotel, corner Van Buren and LaSalle Streets, 160 rooms, 
$2.00 per day. Gault House, Madison and Clinton Streets (West Side), 
125 rooms, $2.00 to $2.50 per day. Brevoort House (European plan), 
145 Madison Street, 125 rooms, $1.00 to $1.50 per day. WindsoJ 
European Hotel, 147 Dearborn Street, 75 cents to $2.00 per day. 



REAL ESTATE SALES, PROMINENT REAL ESTATE DEALERS, 
AGENTS AND LOAN BROKERS. 

r T^HE real estate interests of Chicago are naturally of immensely 
*■ greater magnitude than any other line of investment, and are grow- 
ing rapidly and constantly with the growth of the city. This class of 
property is far less subject to violent fluctuation than any other, and 
although there have been several reactions in the history of Chicago, 
resulting from speculative "booms" that placed prices far in advance 
of the time, the market was never long in recovering and carrying up 
the ruling rates more firmly than before, thus proving the highest 
figures to have been merely auticipative, The story of these fluctua- 
tions, with notes of the rise of realty in value, the improvement in 
building operations, the movements of the bonded debt, and other 
matters bearing upon the real estate interests of the city, appear in the 
opening chapter of this work. 

The aggregates of real estate sales during the last decade will convey 
some idea of the extent of these interests. They are shown in the fol- 
lowing table : 

1874, total sales $67,871,653 1879, total sales $38,123,391 

1875, " 53,149,852 1880, " ... 43,682,922 

1876, " 42,153,596 1881, tl 54,859,186 

1877, " , 38,153,291 1882, " 65,735,185 

1878, " 42,126,821 1883, " 44,164,243 

Grand total for ten years, $189,990,623. The sales for the two years immedi- 
ate] ,• following the great fire of 1871 were: for 1872, $78,183,458; for 1873, 
$78,427,931. 

Nearly all of this immense business is transacted by the real estate 
agents, and a large part of it for extensive owners who reside in the 
various money centers of the world. Hence there is great and wide- 
spread interest in the subject, and a general desire to know something 
about those who handle this large volume of investments. With the 
view of supplying such information, we present herewith brief sketches 
of a few of the firms and individuals engaged in this line of business, 
together with special mention of prominent loan brokers and others 
whose operations are an important factor in the handling and develop- 

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ment of real property. There are nearly one thousand of these agen- 
cies in Chicago, buying, selling and managing for themselves and 
others, many of them on the most extensive scale, and those noted 
below may be taken as fairly representative of all branches of the 
business. 

S. H. Kerfoot & Co., No. 91 Dearborn Street. This firm, composed 
of Samuel H. Kerfoot, Sr., and Samuel H. Kerfoot, Jr., is the oldest real 
estate firm in Chicago, having, in 1852, succeeded the firm of Kees & 
Kerfoot. S. H. Kerfoot, Sr., came to the city from Maryland, in 1848, 
and, by his continuous operations in real estate has contributed very 
largely to the gigantic growth and success of the city. The mils and a 
quarter of territory on the south branch of the Chicago Kiver, in which 
is now transacted the bulk of the enormous lumber business of Chi- 
cago, was brought into the market through the efforts of Mr. Kerfoot, 
at a time when it was a beautiful farm, outlying the city. The effect 
upon the lumber trade alone, by the addition of this land to the city's 
territory, has been of inestimable value. After the great fire (Oct. 8-9, 
1871), this firm opened its new office for business on the day following, 
October the 10th. 

In 1875, having completed his studies, S. H. Kerfoot, Jr., returned 
from Europe and entered his father's office, and, on the first of January, 
1880, he was admitted to partnership in the firm. Their operations 
have been particularly heavy in bulk property, they having been the res- 
ident agents of some of the largest estates sold in the city. One estate, of 
about sixty acres, which originally cost less than $40,000, was sold, in 
lots, to the amount of $1,500,000, by them, and another of less acre- 
age — taken by the owners, twenty-five years ago, in payment of a hope- 
less debt— has, during the last four years, sold for more than $400,000, 
under their management. They act largely for non-resident owners, 
but their transactions are almost entirely confined to Chicago property. 
No rentals receive attention, the business being solely that of purchase 
and sale on firm account, or on commission, and placing loans on 
realty. Their maps, atlases and records are at all times open to their 
clients and the public generally. 

The long experience of this firm has given great weight to their knowl- 
edge and opinions of not only the present values of real estate, but of 
such values at different periods within the past thirty years. Conse- 
quently, such knowledge and opinions are constantly sought and given, 
both orally and in depositions, in litigations as well as in amicable 
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Francis B. Peabody & Co., No. 115 Dearborn Street, succeeded 
about nine years ago to'the firm of Gallop & Peabody, which was estab- 
lished in 1866. For about ten years prior to 1866 Mr. Peabody was 
engaged in the practice of law in this city, but since that date he 
has devoted himself exclusively to the business of investing money 
upon mortage loans in Chicago and vicinity. During that period he 
has placed many millions of dollars for Eastern capitalists and corpora- 
tions, seeking safe investment for their surplus funds; and, during his 
long experience, he has found mortgages on Chicago realty to be as 
safe and reliable investments as government bonds — and at the same 
time much more productive. Mr. Peabody's legal training, his long 
experience in his present business, and his thorough familiarity with 
Chicago real estate and its values, have obtained for him the fullest 
confidence of investors. The junior partners in the firm are James L. 
Houghteling and Francis S. Peabody, both men of high character and 
standing in the community, and thoroughly posted in the business. 
The house affords to borrowers a convenient and reliable source of ob- 
taining such funds as they require and to capitalists a safe medium of 
investment. 

Baird & Bradley, No. 90 LaSalle Street, are successors to L. D. 
Olmsted & Co., established in 1857 by L. D. Olmsted, Lyman Baird 
becoming a partner in 1860. At Mr. Olmsted's death in 1862 Francis 
Bradley was admitted, and in 1864 the name of the firm was changed 
to Baird & Bradley. The transactions of the firm have always been 
largely devoted to placing loans on real estate for Eastern corporations 
and capitalists, and formerly an extensive life and fire insurance bus- 
iness was also done. Some years ago a real estate and renting depart- 
ment was added, which, together with the loan department, has grown 
to very large proportions. 

James B.Goodman & Co., 68 Washington Street, stand in the front 
rank of the real estate houses of the city. The firm consists of Jas. B. 
Goodman and Marvin A. Farr, both gentleman of long experience and 
thoroughly posted in real estate matters. They do a general real estate 
business. One of their specialties has been the handling of property 
desirable for packing house purposes. They have been very successful 
in this line, having sold to most of the great packing establishments 
at the stockyards, the sites of which are advantageously and satisfac- 
torily located. An important feature of their business is the handling 
of valuable tracts of timber, mining and farming lands, of which they 
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Malcom McNeill & Bros., 92 East Washington Street, constitute 
one of the most enterprising and promising real estate firms in the 
city. The members of the firm are Malcom, B. F. and A. C. McNeill, 
all ranking high as active and successful business men, and thoroughly- 
posted in their line. Their acknowledged integrity, thorough experi- 
ence and reliable judgment offer advantages which practical investors, 
especially n realty and real estate securities appreciate, and hence 
the house, established no longer ago than March, 1886, already com- 
mands an extensive and still increasing clientage, and holds a long list 
of desirable city, suburban and country properties for sale or exchange. 
They also collect rents and negotiate loans on favorable terms, and 
transact a considerable business as private bankers. They are con- 
versant with all the best opportunities for sale or purchase, keep con- 
stantly posted on the growth and prospects of localities, and hence are 
resorted to with entire confidence by all parties seeking reliable infor- 
mation and advice in regard to real estate matters. This house is per- 
fectly responsible and trustworthy, and conducts every transaction 
with a careful regard for the interest of the patrons in whose behalf it 
was undertaken. 

Bernard F. Weber, real estate and loans, Rooms 15 and 16, 84 
LaSalle Street. Mr. Weber began in the real estate business in 1870. 
He was afterward a member of the firm of Miller, Weber & Blumen- 
thal for about two years, then B. F. Weber & Co., then in partner- 
ship with Godfrey Schmid. As Weber & Schmid the firm was dis- 
solved in 1883, since which time Mr. Weber has conducted business 
alone. He is one of the most prominent among the dealers in suburban 
property, making a specialty of subdivisions for residence settlements. 
He has in charge at the present time a large subdivision in the north 
end of Lake View, which is to be named High Ridge, and makes a 
specialty of Lake View and Evanston property. He also has in charge 
other subdivisions in Ravens wood, and other desirable suburban locali- 
ties. He buys and sells real estate on his own account as well as upon 
commission, and loans money upon real estate and mortgage security. 
He does a purely real estate business, and undertakes no collecting. 
He enjoys a large patronage, always having a fine list of desirable sub- 
urban properties on hand. His facilities for the transaction of a 
legitimate real estate business are not excelled by those of any firm in 
the city, 

Barnard & Calkins, real estate dealers, etc., 109 LaSalle Street. 
This representative business house, the principals of which are M. R, 



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Barnard and C. K. Calkins, occupies commodious, convenient and 
centrally located offices, specially fitted np for their business, at 109 
LaSalle Street, in the old Chamber of Commerce, This firm takes 
charge of every description of real property, securing good tenants, 
collecting rents, paying taxes, and having the sole charge of property 
when desired; it buys and sells on commission, city and suburban real 
estate improved and unimproved, negotiates loans, and effects mort- 
gages in large or small sums in Cook County when the security offered 
is beyond question. It assumes the care and management of commer- 
cial and residence property, paying the same attention to all business 
intrusted to them that they do to their own property. The members 
of this house are connected with the Chicago real estate board, and 
take an active interest in everything that pertains to the welfare of 
the great metropolitan commercial center of the West. This firm has 
enjoyed a prosperous career, its business having increased from year to 
year, and its affairs are conducted with enterprise and good judgment. 
It enjoys the confidence and patronage, to a large extent, of capitalists 
and landed proprietors. 

John N. Young, real estate and loans, 204 Chicago Opera House 
Block. Mr. Young established this business in 1868, coming here from 
Peoria. He possesses superior facilities for the transaction of business, 
and owns large tracts of Chicago realty. He handles much city and 
suburban property in almost every locality for others, and can offer it 
on terms to suit customers. He gives special and faithful attention to 
the management of rental properties, making them as remunerative as 
possible. He is a recognized authority on values, and many fortunes 
have been made in consequence of taking his advice relative to specu- 
lative purchases. Mr. Young effects loans on bonds and mortgages at 
low interest and on satisfactory terms. He is held in high estimation 
by the business community. 

Charles P. Silva, real estate and loans, 133 LaSalle Street. This 
gentleman, formerly of the firm of Hopkinson & Silva, has transacted 
a general real estate and loan business since 1865. His offices are 
centrally located, and he buys and sells realty personally and upon 
commission, and manages several valuable estates, including the Rhodes 
estate, of Cleveland, Ohio, and the estates of H. J. Ward, of Wisconsin, 
and William Hopkinson. He is also agent for the Morgan Park prop- 
erty, unexcelled for residence purposes. Long experience and an inti- 
mate knowledge of values give Mr. Silva unsurpassed advantages, and 
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industry and fidelity lie has attained the confidence of owners and 
investors, and an unexcelled business standing. 

Byron A. Baldwin & Co., real estate and mortgage loans, 154 
Washington Street. This firm is composed of Messrs. Byron A. Bald- 
win, member of the Chicago real estate board; Jas. W. D. Kelley, secre- 
tary of the Bookkeepers' Building and Loan Association, and Walter 
S. Baldwin, notary public. Mr. Byron A. Baldwin owns a considerable 
amount of city and suburban property, and the firm does a large busi- 
ness in selling real estate on commission, negotiating mortgage loans, 
collecting rents, managing estates, paying taxes and protecting the 
interests of non-resident and local owners. They are now placing on 
the market 155 choice lots in Maplewood, known as "Byron A. Bald- 
win's Subdivision," which fronts south on Humboldt Boulevard about 
500 feet west of California Avenue. The close proximity of Maple- 
wood to the business center of Chicago makes it a desirable residence 
section for those who wish to reach the city quickly and secure homes 
at a moderate price. The rapid growth of this attractive suburb is 
unprecedented; present population over 20,000 and rapidly increasing. 
Mr. Baldwin also owns two blocks of city property, consisting of 
seventy-four lots fronting on Central Park Boulevard, Kedzie Avenue, 
Tray Street and Albany Avenue, located east of and near Garfield Park. 
This first-class city residence property is just being put on the market 
at such prices as will insure its rapid sale and improvement. The busi- 
ness of Byron A. Baldwin & Co. is large and steadily increasing, their 
promptness and reliability being such that they give satisfaction to 
their clients in all their dealings. 

Schraeder Brothers, real estate brokers, No. 80 East Washington 
Street. The business of this widely-known and enterprising house was 
established in 1865, and has steadily increased ever since. The firm 
deal both in city and suburban realty. Their long practical experience 
in the business has given them a comprehensive knowledge of the value 
both present and prospective, of all kinds of business and residence 
property, and they have on their books full descriptions of desirable 
property offered for sale, and freely advise those contemplating mak- 
ing purchases. They effect leases on bond and mortgage securities 
to the safety and profit of the investor, and at the same time to the 
advantage of the purchaser. The Schraeder Brothers make a specialty 
of taking the entire charge and business management of property, 
securing reliable and prompt paying tenants, collecting rents, making 
necessary repairs, placing insurance, paying taxes, etc., and insuring 



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the greatest possible net income of the property. Their commercial 
connections are of a superior character, and they have won a high 
reputation for sterling business methods, and fair and liberal treat- 
ment of their patrons. 

Greenebaum Sons, mortgage bankers, 316 and 118 LaSalle Street 
This business, established in 1855 by Elias Greenebaum, is conducted 
by him and his sons, Messrs. H. E. and M. E. Greenebaum. They 
negotiate loans on real estate and place investments. This firm stands 
high among the financial institutions of Chicago, and has placed mill- 
ions of dollars for clients safely and profitably. Long experience 
gives them unsurpass^.l facilities for placing loans and their accurate 
knowledge of values makes their house a safe and reliable medium for 
advantageous investments, while their established reputation for fair 
dealing affords borrowers a reliable source of supply for needed funds. 
The firm has the fullest confidence of investors and does a large busi- 
ness in first mortgages on Chicago and suburban real estate. 

J. A. Bartlett, real estate and loans, 152 La Salle Street. Mr. Bart- 
lett is one of the most enterprising and public -spirited men in real 
estate circles in Chicago, having been a resident of the city for more 
than thirty years, and been identified with the real estate interests for 
seventeen years. He has been zealous and active, and has secured a 
large clientage among the leading landed proprietors and owners of 
commercial blocks and residence property. He is a resident of Engle- 
wood, and has the charge of extensive properties both in Englewood 
and Normal Park. He negotiates loans, collects rents, both of residence 
property and commercial blocks, and pays special attention to the 
property of non-residents, or persons who are unable to attend per-* 
sonally to their own affairs. His office at room 15, 152 La Salle Street, 
conveniently located, is fitted up with perfect adaptation for his busi- 
ness. Mr. Bartlett has enjoyed a prosperous business career, and his 
affairs are conducted with enterprise and rare judgment. 

J. F. Lyon, real estate, 177 LaSalle Street, established this business 
in 1875. He handles all descriptions of city and subuiban fealty, em- 
bracing commercial blocks, residence property and tenement houses, 
both on his own account and on commission. His chief business 
is on the West side, and, aided by his appointment as notary pub- 
lic, he does a large business in conveyancing, examining and per- 
fecting titles, executing deeds, and attends to every detail of purchas- 
ing or transferring real estate. He has superior facilities for effecting 
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money on the very best real estate security. He gives particular at- 
tention to the care of property, renting and making collections, looking 
after insurance, taxes, special assessments, water rates, etc., making the 
property as remunerative as possible, and exercising the same iiare 
that would be given it by the owner. 

Came & Coombs, successors to Carne & Drury, tax abstracts and 
real estate, 78 LaSalle Street. To supply the need, generally felt by 
property owners, of a reliable agent to look after tax matters, this bus- 
iness was established in 1874 by Mr. John Carne and Mr. Edwin Drury. 
Kecently the latter retired, and was succeeded by Mr. Hiram Coombs, 
who was with the firm of Carne & Drury from its inception, and is thor- 
oughly familiar with all the details of the business. The experience 
and intimate knowledge possessed by this firm of all matters connected 
with the assessment and collection of taxes give assurance to those who 
place tax matters in their hands that they will be attended to promptly 
and correctly. The care and fidelity with which every item of business 
is transacted by this house is attested by the steady growth of its pat- 
ronage since its inception . 

Haddock, Vallette & Rickeords, abstract makers, 85-87 Dearborn 
Street, constitute a .thoroughly representative firm in the important 
branch of the real estate interest to which they are devoted. Their 
facilities for accuracy and despatch in the work of giving the history 
of Cook County realty are the very best; and their long acquaintance 
with the importance and responsibility of the business has given the 
public a confidence in their work that can only be obtained by years 
of careful and painstaking labor. 

Barnes & Parish, consisting of F. A. Barnes and S. M. Parish, are 
located at No. 157 LaSalle Street. The house was founded in 1874. 
Messrs. Barnes & Parish are widely known as leading real estate and 
renting agents; conducting all transactions pertaining to a legitimate 
real estate business. They negotiate loans on the most favorable terms, 
employ the best opportunities for making safe and profitable invest- 
ments, and buy and sell property for non-residents and others. Their 
facilities and standing are such that they are frequently given carte 
blanche for extensive purchases, their clients often not seeing the prop- 
erty until after it is paid for, but trusting entirely to the judgment of 
their agents, which has in all cases proven satisfactory. They manage 
property for non-residents and others, taking full charge and attending 
to all the details as carefully as the owners could do it, and more satis- 
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enabling them to secure desirable tenants, collect and remit promptly, 
pay taxes, insurance, repairs, etc., all to greater advantage than is pos- 
sible lor any one less thoroughly informed. Their specialty is renting, 
and in this department they do a very extensive bnsiness, having now 
over seventeen hundred tenants occupying residence houses,stores and 
other business property. 

Wm. Garnett & Co. are located at No. 180 Dearborn (Street. The 
business was established in 1868 by William Garnett, the senior mem- 
ber of the present firm. John L. Garnett was admitted in 1880. They 
buy and sell all kinds of improved and unimproved real estate in the 
city and county. They manage estates and give special attention to 
management of property for non-residents, and solicit correspondence 
with all persons having real estate to be looked after, either in the 
city or the county. They negotiate loans, pay taxes, collect rents, in 
fact conduct a general real estate and renting business. Sixteen years 
of uninterrupted experience in real estate transactions give the firm 
all the advantages known to the business. Reference: L. J. Gage, 
First "National Bank. 

Henry H.Walker, 116 Monroe Street, has been prominently identi- 
fied with real estate interests in Chicago since 1869. At that time he 
became associated with his brother, Samuel J. Walker, who commenced 
dealing in real estate in this city in 1853. The latter was one of the 
most extensive real estate dealers and owners in Chicago. To him is 
largely due the development of property in the southwestern part of 
the city, where he loeated many of the most extensive manufacturing 
establishments, such as the McCormick Eeaper Works, the Chicago 
Malleable Iron Works, the Chicago Stove Works, etc. In fact, he con- 
tributed more to the development of West Side property than any other 
person. Mr. S. J. Walker died April 15, 1884, and since that time the 
business has been continued by Henry H. Walker alone, whose practi- 
cal experience in the real estate business is of incalculable value in mak- 
ing investments and in the purchase, subdivision, sale and general 
management of property, which are the leading features of his business. 

Bogue & Hoyt, Room 1, 182 Dearborn St., composed of Geo. M. 
Bogue, Henry W. Hoyt and Hamilton B. Bogue, were organized in 
1873, as successors to the senior partner who established the business 
in 1867. They have at all times on their books a large line of 
improved and unimproved property for sale, in the most desirable 
locations for investment, and do an extensive business in mortgage 
loans on first-class real estate security. They buy and sell on com- 



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mission, and give special attention to the care and management of 
property for non -residents, rent property, collect rents and pay taxes. 
They have also been very successful in buying acre property suitable 
for subdivision and sale in lots, their transactions in this line proving 
profitable to all concerned. They handled a very large amount of resi- 
dence property during the past few years, especially on the South 
Side, having extensive and desirable property along Drexel and Grand 
Boulevards, and in the attractive Kenwood section, in Hyde Park and 
along the lake shore, and along the route of the suburban trains of the 
Illinois Central Eailroad, in all of which their list embraces many of 
the handsomest and most favorable building sites to be found any- 
where around the city. The firm brings a large experience to bear in 
all its transactions, and occupies a leading position in the business. 

Nelson Thomasson, Boom 3. northwest corner of Washington and 
Dearborn Streets, is both agent and dealer, giving his attention to buy- 
ing and selling for himself and others. He makes a specialty of busi- 
ness property (stores) and boulevard and acre property, and has con- 
ducted some extensive transactions, especially in acre property, from 
which his clients have realized large profits. In one case he made 
$40,000 for a client by an investment in Pitner's subdivision. He is 
also very successful in favorably locating manufactories, and has se- 
cured many 'advantageous sites, especially along the Belt Kail way. 
He established the present business in 1870, and his long experience 
enables him to avail himself of all desirable opportunities, which ad- 
vantage he employs freely for the advancement of the interest of his 
extensive list of patrons. He always has a list of desirable property to 
offer investors at great bargains. As to personal standing he refers 
to all Chicago banks. 

F. A. Bragg & Co., 95 Washington Street, do an extensive business 
in buying and selling real estate, negotiating loans, renting and collect- 
ing and generally managing property for non-residents and others. Mr. 
Bragg, who has been a resident of Chicago for a third of a century, 
established his business in 1867, and has been remarkably successful 
in it. For about nine years he was City Superintendent of Assess- 
ments, in which position he acquired information of great advantage 
in his present pursuit ;" and at the outbreak of the late war he was First 
Assistant Engineer of the Fire Department. Few men are as well posted 
in Chicago property, or command as implicitly the confidence of own- 
ers and investors. 



*xShe $5fmanciat < %rx&tihitxorx&. 

THE NATIONAL, STATE AND SAVINGS BANKS, BANKERS AND 
OLEAEING HOUSE STATISTICS. 

THEKE are seventeen National banks in Chicago, with a combined 
cash capital of $14,700,000, and a total surplus of more than 
$2,000,000. There are thirteen state banks (including three savings 
banks) with a combined capital of $5,536,700, and a total surplus of 
$3,112,000. There are also twenty-four private banking houses, and 
two branch Canadian banks, employing a large capital. Thus it will 
be seen that the total banking capital of the city is not less than $26,- 
000,000. According to the statements returned to the Clearing House* 
in Dec. 31, 1886, the twenty banks belonging to the association had 
on deposit $97,635,979, and their loans at the same date amounted 
$79,112,291.46. 

The National Bank of Illinois is one of the strongest monetary 
institutions in the west. It was organized Sept. 1, 1871, and although 
not as old as some of the other city banks, it long ago attained a repu- 
tation for financial worth and integrity, and acquired a business 
patronage of such extensive proportions as to place it in the very front 
rank of the leading banking organizations of the country. Its man- 
agement from the outset embraced a most substantial array of exper- 
ience and success in financial lines, including some of the leading and 
most prominent business men and financiers in Chicago, and at once 
commanded the fullest confidence of the public. Founded just before 
the great fire of 1871, its funds had not been loaned out to any great 
extent when that memorable conflagration swept so much of the city 
to destruction. Hence, it escaped the losses— if not the utter ruin — 
that bore so heavily upon some of its contemporaries at that time. Its 
first location was at No. 95 Washington Street, and its initial capital 
was $500,000. The latter has since been increased to $1,000,000, 
and there is an accumulated surplus fund of $300,000. Its average 
deposits amount to over $5,000,000, and its stock is quoted at $1.45 



* See Clearing House Association, page 266. 



284 MARQUIS' HAND BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

on the dollar. There has not been a year in the history of the bank 
that it has not made substantial progress, having gone steadily forward 
from the very first. It transacts all business pertaining to legitimate 
banking operations. Eeceives deposits, discounts commercial paper, 
makes collections, deals in U. S. and home securities and foreign ex- 
change, issues letters of credit, etc. Its correspondents at the principal 
monetary centers are of the highest standing, and it has responsible 
connections at all desirable collection points. Unlike mauy of the banks 
in Chicago, its transactions are not limited to any particular line of 
trade or manufacture, but embrace every branch of commercial enter- 
prise, and are therefore of the most diversified character. On the 20th 
of Feb., 1885, Grannis Block, in which the bank had its home, was 
burned to the ground, but before the part of the structure in which 
it was situated was fairly afire, steps had been taken to procure another 
office, and on the following morning it opened within five minutes of 
the usual time, and made its appearance at the clearing house with 
accustomed regularity. Mr. Geo. Schneider, the president of the bank, 
and Mr. Wm. H. Bradley, vice-president, have occupied these positions 
from the date of its organization. Mr. W. A. Hammond, cashier, and 
Mr. Geo. A. McKay, assistant cashier, both entered the bank within six 
months after it was opened, and each has successively filled every posi- 
tion from the lowest up to the responsible place he now occupies. The 
Grannis Block, Nos. 109 to 115 Dearborn Street, will be immediately 
rebuilt and will hereafter be called th'J Illinois Bank Building. It will 
be an elegant and thoroughly fire proof structure, and will be re-oc- 
upied as the permanent home of the National Bank of Illinois. 

Charles Henrotin, 115 Dearborn Street, dealer in bonds, stocks and 
commercial paper, conducts a business that is in the aggregate an im- 
portant factor in the financial and commercial prosperity of Chicago. 
He deals specially in investment securities, of the highest order, and 
the large amount of securities handled by him annually is a significant 
indication of the preference of the capital of the country for invest- 
ments in this section. Mr. Henrotin established his business in 1878. 
Prior to that time he had been connected continuously from 1860 with 
one of the strongest financial institutions in the city, for twelve years of 
the time as its cashier. He makes a specialty of the purchase and sale 
of first mortgage bonds, especially of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, 
the Chicago & Northwestern, the Chicago & Alton, and the Chicago, 
Burlington & Quincy Bailroads. He also handles a large amount of local 
and railroad stocks and first-class commercial paper, and always has an 



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extensive and desirable line of securities for the inspection and selec- 
tion of investors. His long experience gives him special qualifications 
for the judicious investment of funds for capitalists, trustees of estates, 
etc. Mr. Henrotin has been President of the Stock Exchange for two 
consecutive years, is Consul at this port for Belgium and Turkey, and 
holds a high rank as a business man and financier. 

The First National Bank is one of the great institutions of Chicago ; 
and for nearly a quarter of a century it has been a prominent landmark 
in the monetary system of the city, and, in fact, of the country. It was 




The First National Bank, Corner Dearborn and Monroe Sts. 

founded in 1863, with a capital of $300,000, and with E. Aiken as pres- 
ident, Samuel Nickerson as vice-president, and E. E. Braisted, cashier, 
and at once entered on a career of prosperity that has never been 
broken. It has steadily grown in strength and influence from the date 
of its organization, increasing its capital from time to time, until it is 
now the largest of any national bank west of New York City. The first 
president held his office until his death, in 1 867, when he was suc- 
ceeded by Mr. Samuel Nickerson, the present incumbent. Mr. Lyman 
J. Gage became cashier in 1868, and continued in that position until 
his election to the vice-presidency in 1882. H. R. Symonds succeeded 



286 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

Mr. Gage in the cashiership, H. M. Kingman and R. J. Street becoming 
first and second assistants respectively. The " First National Bank" 
was re-chartered in 1882, with a capital of $3,000,000 ; it has a sur- 
plus capital of $500,000 ; its average deposits amount to about $16,- 
000,000, and its stock is quoted at $2.00 to $2.25 on the dollar. The 
bank transacts all business pertaining to legitimate banking opera- 
tions, both domestic and foreign. It receives deposits, discounts com- 
mercial paper, makes collections, deals in United States and home 
securities and sterling exchange, issues letters of credit, etc. It has 
established correspondents in London, Paris and other European cap- 
itals to assist, through the purchase and sale of foreign exchange, in 
that great interchange of industrial products by which the value of 
human labor is everywhere made more effective. The bank is also 
prepared to invest moneys for estates and trusts, under order of court 
or otherwise, in designated securities, which it will hold separately for 
such trusts, etc., and will collect the interest and coupons upon same 
for reinvestment or otherwise, upon moderate charges. The home of the 
bank is a magnificent structure on the corner of Dearborn and Monroe 
Streets, and the banking office proper is one of the largest and finest in 
the world. It is 95X195 feet ; the floor is laid in mosaic of black and 
white marble, and the counters of vari-colored marble are finished in 
cherry and plate glass. 

N. W. Harris & Co., the well-known investment bankers, removed 
to the finely appointed offices now occupied by them in Montauk 
Block, Nos 115 and 117 East Monroe Street, on the 1st of May, 1885. 
Established in 1882, the business was not long in assuming large pro- 
portions. It has grown steadily and rapidly, and the transactions 
now aggregate several millions of dollars annually. The Messrs. Harris 
confine their transactions mainly to that branch of the banking busi- 
ness popularly known as investment banking, making a specialty of 
the purchase and sale of county, city, town and school bonds. 

S. A. Kean & Co. (S. A. Kean and John Farson), successors to Pres- 
ton, Kean & Co., one of the leading banking houses of Chicago, are 
located at No. 100 East Washington Street, where they have been for 
twelve years. The old house was founded by S. A. Kean, who began 
business in 1860. In 1861 Mr. D. Preston became connected with the 
house, and in 1872 the firm became Preston, Kean & Co., and so 
remained until February, 1885, when the present firm was organized. 
Through all this time, more than a quarter of a century, Mr. Kean had 
been the active manager of the business, and it was to his energy and 



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ability that the house owed its remarkable success, growing from a 
small beginning to the highest eminence in financial circles. The 
operations of the bank increased rapidly after the fire of 1871, and it 
acquired the largest private banking and investment business west of 
New York. Messrs. Kean & Co. transact all departments of the banking 
business, receiving the accounts of merchants, bankers and others, 
advancing money on good collaterals, discounting approved paper, 

buying and selling ex- 
change on the principal 
European cities, etc. 
They also deal largely in 
government, state and 
municipal bonds and lo- 
cal securities, and dur- 
ing the year just ended 
they have effected sales 
of bonds amounting to 
millions of dollars. A 
special feature of their 
business is the negotia- 
tion of county, city, 
town and school district 
securities, frequently 
buying the entire issues 
of such bonds and nego- 
tiating them to the ad- 
vantage alike of the 
municipality, the pur- 
chaser and themselves. 
They also deal largely in 
government land war- 
rants and scrip, available 
in payment for govern- 
ment lands. The rapid growth of the operations of the bank has neces- 
sitated the establishment of a New York office, which has been recently 
opened at the corner of Broadway and Wall Street for the facilitation of 
their investment business in the East. Messrs. Kean & Co. are also 
publishers of a valuable digest of laws governing the issue of securities 
which, in consequence of their extended experience in such mrtters, 
is regarded as the highest authority. 




S. A, Kean & Co, 



Bankers, 100 Washington St. 



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Bank clearings through the Chicago Clearing Housef (from 1866 
to 1886, inclusive): 



1866 $ 453,798,648.11 

1867 '.'.'.".. 580,727,331.43 

1868 723,293,144.91 

1869 734,664,949.91 

1870 810,676,036.28 

1871 868,936,754.20 

1S72 993.1. 60,503. 47 

1873 1,047,027,828.33 

1874 1,101,347,948.41 

1875 1,212,817,207.54 

1876 1,010,092,624.37 



1877 $1,044,678,475.70 

1878 967,184,093.07 

1879 1,257,756,124.31 

1880 1,725,684,894.85 

1881 2.229,097,450 60 

1882 2,366,536,855.00 

1883 2,525,622,944.00 

1884 2,259,680,391.74 

1885 2,318,579,003.07 

1886 2,604,762,912.35 



The following is a complete list of the National banks: 



NAME. 


CAPITAL. 


SURPLUS. 




$1,000,000 

700,000 

300,000 

1,000,000 

2,000,000 

250,000 

3,000,000 

300,000 

250,000 

500,000 

500,000 

1 ,000,000 

1,000,000 

200,000 

200,000 

2,000,000 

500,000 




*Atlas 




*Chicago 


$ 100,000 

200,000 

133,000 

38,000 

750,000 

80,000 

100,000 

1,000,000 

100,000 

140,000 

350,000 

50,000 

9,500 

300,000 

171,000 


*Commercial 


♦Continental 




*First . . 


♦Hide and Leather 


Home 




♦Metropolitan 


*National Bank of America 




*Northwestern National Bank 


Park 


*Union 


Union Stock Yards 






$14,700,000 


$2,335,500 



+See Chicago Clearing House Association, page 266. 

♦Banks marked thus belong to the Clearing House Association. 

The following is a complete list of the state and savings banks, with 
their capital: 



NAME. 


CAPITAL. 


SURPLUS. 


Chicago Trust and Savings Bank 


$ 500,000 

1,000,000 

50,000 

111,000 

500,000 
500,000 
2,000,000 
] 00,000 
100,000 
200,000 

125,000 
300,000 




*Corn Exchange .' 


$ 500,000 


Dime Savings 


♦Hibernian Banking Association 




♦Home Savings 




Illinois Trust and Savings 


286,000 


♦International 


Merchants' Loan and Trust Companv. . . 


1,000,000 
51,000 


*Prairie State, Loan and Trust Companv... 


*Rock Savings 


♦Traders 




tTwentv- Second Street , 




♦Union Trust Company 


389,000 


United States Bank 








$5,536,000 


$3,412,000 



♦Banks marked thus belong to the Clearing House Association, 
tCapital not reported, 



/ 28u£me#£ Sdou$e&. 



PROMINENT AND INTERESTING MERCANTILE AND MANUFACTUR- 
ING ESTABLISHMENTS. 

AMONG the most interesting features of Chicago are her great fac- 
tories, salesrooms and counting-houses, many of which have had 
such prominent part in the rise and progress of the business interests 
of the city that their history would be, in fact, a business history of 
Chicago. A work of this kind would, therefore, be incomplete unless 
this important element had some representation in it ; but of the large 
number of representative firms whose establishments and business 
methods fairly illustrate the spirit of enterprise that has built up the 
great commercial interests of the city, and that is still reaching out for 
new fields to conquer, we have space to note only the few which follow. 



Among the many topics discussed in the political economies, none is 
of so absorbing interest or pre-eminent importance as that of trade, 
the great mainspring actuating the wheels of industry and influencing 
the prosperity of persons, communities and nations. 

As in all other spheres of life, so in trade leaders spring up in the 
various branches, who, by their enterprise, make famous the town or 
city favored by its presence, and to whom redounds the credit of good 
works. The requirements of modern commerce elevate each branch 
of trade to the rank of a science to be carefully studied and progres- 
sively followed, and the law of the survival of the fittest is absolute. 
This must refer in large proportion to the dealer in art manufactures, 
who must have a strong infusion of art knowledge and appreciation, 
not unmixed with mercantile vim — the mainspring evolving science — 
the foundation of all the higher occupations of life. In no field 
of industry has progress been so remarkable as that of wall paper. 
In 1860 the entire manufacture in this line in America amounted 
to barely $2,000,000, and to meet the requirements as much 
more had to be imported. The production has now grown to $12,- 
000,000 annually, while the imports have fallen to $150,000. 
One-third of the grand total of this trade is handled through Chicago, 



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MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 



although, not a single piece of paper-hangings has been manufactured 
west of the. Alleghenies. This astonishing fact leads us to seek some 
cogent reason for its existence. A brief sketch of the history of the 
trade will furnish an answer. In 1854 a young, active mechanic, just 
out of his apprenticeship and full of ambition and vigor, came to the 
city with a few hundred dollars and keen business ability. His enter- 
prise found friends and enemies. The former encouraged him to greater 
ambition, while the latter spurred his enterprise to increased effort. 
The foundation of future success was laid deeply while quietly working 
at his business; the value of a day was learned and time became to him 
a very sacred thing. Thrift followed, and the largest wall paper house in 

the world was thus founded in 
Chicago by John J. McGrath. His 
refined appreciation of the art in- 
volved in his business induced 
him to constantly send able art- 
ists to Europe for the sole purpose 
of getting the most advanced ideas 
and the best works of designers 
of the highest celebrity, such as 
Christopher Dresser, William 
Morris, Welby Pugin, Moyer Smith 
and B. J. Talbot. The European 
manufacturers, not slow to per- 
ceive his approaching success, so- 
licited his aid in distributing their, 
products in the American markets, 
and he became the sole agent for 
one German, two French and four 
English houses whose works are 
the foremost of their countries. The handsome building now occupied 
by Mr. McGrath contains 80,000 square feet of floor space, devoted 
exclusively to the jobbing and retailing of wall papers, and this great 
establishment has a frontage equal to four ordinary stores, on the east 
side of Wabash Avenue, between Madison and Washington Streets. The 
special importations of this house are sent to NewYork, Boston, Philadel- 
phia, and all the great Eastern cities, and westward as far as San Fran- 
cisco. Stuffs from India and Japan are to be found piled side by 
side with French, English and German goods, both woven and printed, 
and of rare beauty and value, and these with much more may be seen 
in a visit to this great estabUshment of the West, 




John J. McGrath, 106-112 Wabash Avenue. 



MARQUIS \ HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 



291 



Jansen, McClurg & Co. — It is a frequent remark among visitors 
from the east that Chicago possesses the best and most complete book- 
store in the United States; and traveled visitors sometimes add, "Yes, 
the best book-store in the world." This may at first seem extravagant, 
but after one has thoroughly explored the great establishment of A. 
C. McClurg & Co., at the corner of Wabash Avenue and Madison 
Street, the seeming extravagance is pretty sure to fade away. It is not 
merely that the firm occupy the entire six stories of a beautiful build- 
ing 150X72 feet in size, but 
__ - : '\d -T, that here are found, in most 

JP surprising profusion, the finest 

j and rarest books of all countries 

^^====m , anc ^ £i meS- j n 110 one store in 

+ .^Jk^&.^>L'.~; l •.. London can the purchaser 

of a well selected library 
find so varied a representation 
of the best editions of the 
classic English writers. This 
seems like strong language, 
but let the test be made, and 
see if it be not found true. 
Not only are all the best au- 
thors, English and American, 
found here in every variety 
of edition and binding, from 
the cheapest to the most 
sumptuous, but also the finest 
art productions of the Euro- 
pean presses. The rarest mas- 
terpieces of book illustration 
from the pencils of Turner, of Stothard, of Blake, of Cruikshank and 
of Leech, as well as the later work of Gibson and of Vedder, are quite 
as likely to be found, in their earliest and best states, in this rich 
collection as the newest French novel or Mr. Howells' last fiction. 

The vast realm of current literature is represented by every wor- 
thy English or American book. Medicine and surgery, science and 
political economy, form departments by themselves; and school-books, 
from the primer and spelling-book to the calculus and lexicon, are 
piled in the basement more like cordAvood than literature. But when 
it is remembered that the multitudinous schools dotting the countrv, 




A. C. McClurg & Co., Wabash Ave. and Madison St, 



292 MARQUIS' BAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

from Indiana to the Eocky Mountains and from the Ohio River to the 
northern borders of Montana, draw a large part of their supplies from 
this one source, the school-book mountains seem none too large. All 
parts of the great Northwest look to this house for their literary sup- 
plies, and libraries, book clubs and private buyers, as well as the local 
book-sellers in all parts of the western states and territories, are in 
daily communication with the firm, which has long maintained a very 
high reputation for fair dealing and courtesy. Although mainly 
book-sellers, their own publications are already getting a high char- 
acter in the east as well as in the west. Should the visitor ascend 
beyond the second floor, which contains the general offices and count- 
ing rooms, he will find the upper parts of the building largely occupied 
with every variety of blank books and stationery, in which branch of 
trade their dealings are very extensive. 

The merchant who comes to buy, the traveler who wants to pick up a 
new book, and the visitor to Chicago who desires to study its various 
phases, should none of them miss a visit to this really remarkable 
book-store. 

J. M. W. Jones Stationery and Printing Company, stationery and 
printing, 167, 169 and 171 Dearborn Street. This is the oldest-estab- 
lished house in its line in Chicago, having been founded in 1835 by 
Stephen F. Gale. The firm afterward became A. H. & C. Burley, and 
in 1857 the business passed into the hands of Jones, Perdue & Small, 
in 1862 becoming Jones & Small, in 1866 J. M. W.Jones, and in 1876 
being incorporated under its present style. The officers of the company 
are J. M.W.Jones, president and treasurer, and J. H. Swart, vice-pres- 
ident and secretary. They occupy a five-story and basement building, 
63x120 feet, and two floors of the adjoining building, 40x120 feet, 
the premises being fitted up with modern improved machinery and ap- 
pliances suitable to the requirements of the business. They employ 
450 skilled and experienced workmen, and do a general printing, lith- 
ographing and stationery business, making a specialty of railroad 
printing and lithographing and railroad ticket printing. They also do 
general commercial printing and electrotyping in the finest style of the 
art, and keep on hand a large and thoroughly diversified stock of ev- 
erything pertaining to the stationery line, including blank books, inks, 
ink-stands, hand-bags, fancy stationery, etc. The business is one of 
the largest in the country in its line, and the company has achieved 
an unexcelled reputation for the superiority of its work, promptness in 
filling orders, and correct methods in the transaction of business, 



MARQUIS' HANDBOOK OF CHICAGO. 293 

enjoying the patronage of leading railway and other corporations, and 
the most prominent business firms of the West. Mr. Jones, the head of 
the firm, has had a long and valuable experience in the business. He 
was engaged in it at Troy, N. Y., his native place, prior to his removal 
to Chicago, and embarking in the firm of Jones, Perdue & Small in 1857. 
By close attention to all the details 01 the business he has built up the 
prosperous trade now eD joyed by the company and directed it to the 
achievement of a great and merited success. 

The James Cunningham, Son & Co., builders of fine carriages and 
hearses, 390 to 396 Wabash Avenue, was established by Mr. James 
Cunningham in 1838, and was incorporated in 1884 with a capital 
stock of $803,000. The factories of the company, at Kochester, N. 
Y., are among the largest and best equipped in the world, and the 
vehicles manufactured are unsurpassed in every requisite of design, 
quality of materials and durability of service. The leading specialties 
of manufacture are landaus, coaches, broughams and victorias, and their 
trade extends to all parts of the United State?. A large stock is kept in 
the repository in this city — 390 to 396 Wabash Avenue — and the prices 
are always the very lowest. The Chicago house is under the personal 
management of J. W. Phillips, long experienced in the business. 
Branch houses have also been established in New York City, St. Louis 
and San Francisco. 

S. Hyman & Co., diamond' merchants and jewelers, State and 
Madison Streets. This house maintains an enviable position in this 
trade. It is located corner of State and Madison Streets. Founded in 
1859 by one of those pioneers whom instinct led to this spot, the house 
has passed through wondrous mutations to be known in 1877 by its 
present name, when, on moving into its spacious and elegant quarters, 
Mr. M. H. Berg was added to the partnership. The firm ranks high in 
the character and quality of goods handled. The long lines of show 
cases, under a perfect system of lighting, dazzle the spectator with 
brilliant gems of exquisite cut and polish. The specialties of this house 
are pure water brilliants, their choice white stones being unsurpassed in 
loveliness. A visit to their rooms can scarcely fail to give one a consid- 
erable addition to their diamond lore. Thirteen salesmen are employed 
and the house does an extensive trade throughout the West. Mr. 
Hyman goes to Europe annually purchasing goods, making a personal 
selection and procuring the finest stock of diamonds and precious 
stones. Messrs. Hyman and Berg are both well and honorably known, 
and are thoroughly identified with the attributes of good citizenship. 



294 MARQUIS' BAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

John V. Farwell & Co., wholesale dry-goods, Monroe and Market 
Streets. This great house was established in 1855 by Mr. John V. Far- 
well, on Wells Street. The steady growth of his trade led to an early 
removal to more commodious and central quarters on Wabash Avenue, 
where the establishment stood at the head of the dry-goods enterprises 
of the West, when the business was wiped out and the stock reduced 
to ashes in the great fire of '71. But Messrs. Farwell & Co. bravely 
resolved to make the best of the situation, and soon opened in a new 
and large building which they put up on Monroe Street, and remained 
there until the completion of their present palatial block, which covers 
the largest superficial space devoted exclusively to dry-goods, staples 
and specialties of any house in the world. The building is majestic 
and imposing in appearance, and is a monumental edifice eight stories 
high, covers an entire block, is conveniently arranged and handsomely 
and substantially finished. Each of the eight floors embraces 52,000 
feet of space, all of which is found necessary to adequately accommo- 
date the enormous stock of goods herein stored, and representing the 
manufactures and products of all the leading commercial and manu- 
facturing centers of the world. A thorough system of perfect organiza- 
tion characterizes every department of the colossal business, which 
employs 600 persons. The house of John V. Farwell & Co. has per- 
sonal representatives in all the leading markets of Europe and America. 
The immense and varied stock of this house is adapted to the wants of 
purchasers in all parts of the country, and selected with special refer- 
ence tc the assortment required in each of the various departments of 
the business. It embraces foreign and domestic silks, satins, velvets, 
dress fabrics in all textures, white goods, linens, domestic cottons, 
laces, ribbons, embroideries, shawls, wraps, etc., with furnishing and 
upholstering goods, blankets, flannels, hosiery, gloves, underwear, car- 
pets, Yankee notions, fancy goods, etc. The members of the firm are John 
V. Farwell, Charles B. Farwell, John K. Harmon, John T. Chumasero, 
and John V. Farwell, Jr. The senior member of the firm, Mr. John V. 
Farwell, stands high in the esteem of Chicago as one of the most pub- 
lic-spirited of her citizens, prominent in every charitable, philan- 
thropic, moral and religious movement and in all humanitarian enter- 
prises. The house includes among its customers all the leading dry- 
goods houses of the Middle, Southern, Southwestern, Western and 
Northwestern country, and the annual sales aggregate many millions of 
dollars. Strict commercial integrity and correct business methods 
have combined to place this among the leading dry-goods houses in 
the United States. 



296 marquis* haxd-ibook of Chicago. 

The Campbell Printing Press and Manufacturing Co., lithographic 
and printing machinery, 298-306 Dearborn Street, and 43-47 Fourth 
Avenue. The first Campbell press was built in 1858 by Andrew Camp- 
bell, of New York, and from that time on the Campbell press has been 
growing in favor with every class of printers and publishers. No com- 
pany, in the cylinder printing press line, has probably made such 
strides in public favor as has the one of which we now write. Without 
doubt, one reason why the Campbell Company has so successfully 
appealed to American printers, is that its machines are not only 
American in eyery sense of the word, but sui generis in their mechanical 
movements. We believe every other cylinder printing press manu- 
facturer has, in the main, copied and adhered to the leading features 
of the old Napier press; though, naturally, the form of these features 
has been changed from time to time backward and forward, in order to 
make them appear new or different; but, notwithstanding this, every 
cylinder printing press built during this century, except those built by 
the Campbell Company as also "Stop Cylinders," has been practically 
the same old Napier press which was not even American in its original 
conception. In short, during the last quarter of a century, the Camp- 
bell press has stood alone; and has therefore been the target of the 
more or less bitter denunciations of the older companies who were (and 
are) all tarred with the same stick, i. e., manufacturing the same Napier 
movement presses, hardly varying them even in outward appearance 
sufficiently to enable the average business man to tell the one from the 
other. No one, however, has even seen a Campbell press who will not 
immediately recognize another on sight. The fact is, the Campbell 
press is like an American locomotive or an American bridge or American 
machinery generally, in that its builders cut loose from every foreign 
prototype and tradition, and being thus unhandicapped struck out for 
themselves and built a handsomer, lighter, faster and more durable 
machine, which does its work cheaper and better than any other similar 
machine ever did. Therefore, it probably is not to be wondered at 
that the Campbell Company should become possessed of such an 
immense and valuable business as theirs is now, and that this was done 
in the very teeth of all their competitors. 

The home office of the Campbell Company is at 160 William Street, 
New York, and its Western office is at the address given at the begin- 
ning of this article. The factory is located at Taunton, Mass., where 
some 500 men are employed in manufacturing the sixty odd styles and 
sizes of machines comprised in its catalogue. At Brooklyn, N. Y., a 






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very large repair shop is run in most commodious quarters, where some 
seventy-five expert machinists are constantly at work repairing second- 
hand machinery. Indeed, this concern deals so largely in second-hand 
printing presses that a spacious repair shop in this city (Chicago) has 
been run for years, in which in the neighborhood of twenty-five expert 
machinists do the repairing on the second-hand machines taken in 
trade in the Western States. 

The officers of this company are: Mr. John T. Hawkins, president; 
Mr. John L. Brower, vice-president and secretary; Mr. Ogden Brower, 
treasurer and general manager; Mr. A. T. H. Brower, Western manager. 

The Western business alone, of this company, counts up into the 
hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. It is not surprising, there- 
fore, that the Western department of this concern being located in 
Chicago, is regarded with pride by all Chicagoans, and is esteemed as, 
in the best sense, a home institution. 

The Gage-Downs Corset Co., corset manufacturers, 172 and 174 
Market Street. This firm commenced business in 1884, under the 
management of L. A. Downs, president; and F. N. Gage, secretary and 
treasurer, and with a capital stock of $40,000. They do an annual 
business of $300,000; employ from fifty to sixty persons in their 
factory, and keep from six to ten commercial salesmen on the road. 
Their business is extensive, and principally in the Western and North- 
western country. They manufacture fifty dozen corsets per day, and 
occupy two floors, each 45X160 feet, at 174 Market Street. Their 
line of goods embraces corsets, hoop skirts, bustles, etc., while their 
specialty is the improved Downs patent self-adjusting corset. Their 
main office is at 172 and 174 Market Street, Chicago, but the house has 
several other agencies. This house is agent also for the Dr. Schilling 
Coiled Spring Elastic Section Health Preserving corset, the celebrated 
P. D. imported corset, imported French woven corsets, improved 
Madame Foy corset, the Duplex supporter, Thompson's Patent Glove- 
fitting corset, Madame Mora's Aldine corset, Dr. Strong's Tampico 
corset, the Honest Full- boned all whalebone corset. The materials 
from which the corsets are manufactured are the brightest and best, 
the machinery of the latest improved patterns, and their facilities for 
showing, handling and filling orders for corsets, entirely unexcelled. 
Its proprietors are men of sterling ability and marked honesty, and by 
their generous and cordial business manners they have won the con- 
fidence, respect and good Avill of the community, and the firm friend- 
ship of all with whom they have commercial relations. 



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Brown, Pettibone & Co., printers, stationers, and blank book manu- 
facturers, 194 and 196 Dearborn Street; manufacturing departments, 
194 to 214. This is a representative house in its specific line of indus- 
tries. It was established nearly six years since, by Brown, Pettibone 
& Kelly. Subsequently, Mr. Kelly retired from the firm, and a little 
later Mr. Brown deceased, when the firm was reorganized, the present 
members being Mr. P. F. Pettibone and Mrs. A. C. Brown, widow of the 
former partner. From ninety to one hundred persons are constantly 
em loyed at the printing works and bindery, which are among the 
most extensive, and fitted up with all the latest and most approved 
styles of machinery and mechanical appliances. This house'does all 
kinds of commercial, mercantile and general printing, book, job and 
catalogue work, and makes a specialty of county printing and blank 
book and card work, and has specially prepared itself for doing the 
legal printing and publishing of the several counties in Illinois and 
Dakota. Their convenient salesroom is stocked with every variety of 
stationery goods, and enjoys a liberal patronage, many of the largest 
firms in the city uniformly purchasing their entire supplies of this firm. 
In the line of blank books, Brown, Pettibone & Co. take the lead, their 
work being regarded as of very superior quality, only the best material 
being used in their manufacture, and only the most skilled workmen 
being employed. The manufacturing department comprises the entire 
basement floor of the Dearborn Street front of the Honore Building, 
reaching from the alley to Adams Street. The firm have a high com- 
mercial standing, and their business reputation is second to that of no 
other house of its kind in Chicago, while all who have ever had deal- 
ings with this house, unite in a general testimony of honest and fair 
dealing, and liberal treatment. We unhesitatingly recommend this 
house to such of our readers as have occasion to purchase stationery, 
or who have work to be done in either the printing or binding line. 

Schweitzer & Beer, wholesale and retail dealers in toys and fancy 
goods, 111 South State Street, constitute one of the oldest and best 
known firms in their line in Chicago. The house was established by 
John D. Weber, in 1842, and the present proprietors succeeded to the 
business in 1868, since which time it has grown with steady and rapid 
strides. The salesrooms present at all times a busy and attractive 
scene,, and the six capacious floors are stocked with a line of goods of 
the most diversified and comprehensive character, embracing every- 
thing known to the toy and fancy goods trade, including the products 
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Beer, the junior member of the firm, crosses the ocean every year to 
make purchases and still further augment the wide acquaintance he 
has so long maintained with the trade in the old world. Mr. Edmund 
Schweitzer, the senior member, gives his entire attention to the man- 
agement of the home business. 

The Elgin National Watch Company, manufacturers of watch move- 
ments, American Express building. This representative Western in- 







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dustry was established in 1864. The present corporation, reorganized 
in 1865, has a capital stock of $2,000,000, and its officers are: T. M. 
Avery, president; J. W. Scoville, vice-president; William G. Prall, sec- 
retary; George Hunter, superintendent of works. The celebrated 
trade mark goods of this company are the "B. W. Baymond," '"H. H. 
Taylor," and the "G. M. Wheeler" movements. All other movements 
bear the name of the "Elgin National Watch Company." The Chicago 
general agency occupies an elegant suite of rooms, where President 
Avery and Mr. John M. Cutter, the general agent, make their head- 
quarters. The company started out on a capital stock of $100,000, 
and the business has grown so rapidly as to distance all competitors. 
They sell only to the wholesale trade, and do an annual business of. 



300 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

$3,000,000. Their works in Elgin, 111., cover a superficial area of 
175,000 feet, with a frontage of 552 feet and a depth of 427 feet, em- 
ploy 2,500 hands and turn out 2,000 complete watch movements in 
forty-five different styles daily. The buildings are fitted up with every 
modern appliance and with finer machinery than any watch factory in 
the world, while its tools and general mechanism are wholly unsur- 
passed. The drills used for probing the orifices in the jewels to admit 
the pinions, on which the wheels revolve, are almost as fine as the 
filaments of a spider's web, while the gauges used to measure the cor- 
rectness of the apertures are so delicate as to indicate the ten-thou- 
sandth part of an inch. The cutters used to form the teeth of the escape- 
ment wheel, out of the solid metal, are of sapphire, ground down in dia- 
mond dust and oil, and then inserted in small discs, and so fine is their 
cutting that the chips they displace are only the thirtieth part of 
the thickness of a hair. A coil of wire weighing a pound, and costing 
$5, is worked up into 300,000 screws of the value of $4,000. The 
enterprise of the company is a source of just pride not only to Chicago, 
but also to all the people of the United States. 

Wnv H. Schimpferman & Son, No. 172 East Madison Street, is 
one of the leading importing houses in the city, handling only the 
choicest foreign wines, liquors, ales, porters, fine groceries and cigars. 
Mr. Schimpferman, who is the sole proprietor, established his house at 
No. 157 Lake Street, in 1868, where he was burned out in the great 
fire, with a loss of $100,000. He was insured, but the companies paid 
only 10 to 20 per cent. Nevertheless he immediately opened at Nos. 
5 and 7 West Madison, whence he removed to the present commodious 
and convenient location in 1874. He occupies the main floor and base- 
ment, each 30 by 185 feet, and carries about $100,000 constantly in 
stock. His annual business, which is exclusively wholesale, reaches a 
quarter of a million of dollars, requiring the services of ten clerks. 
He keeps only the finest and most select brands of champagnes, Bur- 
gundies, Khine wines, sherry, port, Madeira, liquors, Havana cigars, 
etc.", etc. His extensive stock of fancy groceries embraces the finest 
canned goods, patties, sauces, cheeses, and other epicurean delicacies 
from all parts of the world. In fact he keeps no cheap goods, and en- 
ters into no competition, his stock being superior to the classes of goods 
commonly sold in competing markets. His trade, which extends all over 
the country, is largely with private families of cultivated taste, clubs 
and first-class hotels. He supplies nearly all the city clubs and hotels, 
and sends goods to clubs in New York, Boston and San Francisco. 




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Davis & Morse Co., retail dry goods, furniture, etc. This is the largest 
general emporium of dry goods, fancy goods, millinery, china and gen- 
eral merchandise, in Chicago. This hive of busy industry, the Davis So 
Morse Company, is centrally and prominently located at the corner of 
State and Van Buren Streets. The establishment has a frontage of 260 
feet on State Street,. and extends 150 feet in depth, on Van Buren 
Street, covering an area of more than two acres. The bazars herein 
contained are devoted respectively to the sale of general dry goods, 
carpets, millinery, fancy goods, crockery, housekeeping goods, etc., and 
represent a stock of merchandise sufficient to fill a number of ordinary 
stores. The stores or different bazars in this grand system of salesrooms 
are systematically arranged, in the most uniform and complete manner, 
and in accordance with the ideas of convenience and economy in the 
expenditure of time and trouble. The counters divide the stores into 
rectangles, and pneumatic tubes radiate from each counter to the 
cashier's desk, so that there is no delay in making change, the cus- 
tomer's money being literally shot at the cashier by the force of a 60- 
horse-power engine, and the change instantly fired back at the clerk, 
while the goods are wrapped up before the customer. Nearly four 
hundred salespeople are employed in this unique village of retail 
stores, all under one management, and so perfect are things systemat- 
ized that everything moves as smoothly as clock work. This grand 
central bazar was established in 1884, by Davis & Morse, but is now 
under the exclusive management of Mr. H. A. Morse, president of the 
company, Mr. Davis having withdrawn from the enterprise. This 
colossal retail house does a magnificent business, and in accordance 
with the original plan of selling all articles at retail at very nearly 
wholesale prices. 

S. S. Barry & Son, house, sign and decorative painting, 258 and 
260 Wabash Avenue. This is one of the largest and best known business 
houses in its line in Chicago, and was established by Barry & Gushing, 
in 1840. It employs from 50 to 150 sign, ornamental and decorative 
artists, and prosecutes every description of work in its line. Its office, 
workshop and salesroom, at 258 and 260 Wabash Avenue, occupy a floor 
40X175 feet. The house carries a large stock of paints and oils, var- 
nishes, putty and painters' and artists' material generally, and transacts 
both a wholesale and retail business. Their treatment of customers 
secures success, and they command the respect and admiration of the 
purchasing public for the spirit of generous liberality which character- 
izes all of their dealings. 



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Tompkins & Mandeville, manufacturers of harness, saddlery and 
turf goods, 180 Wabash Avenue. This representative house was estab- 
lished some thirty years since, by Benjamin Lane, who was succeeded 
by the present firm, consisting of W. L. Tompkins and D. V. Mande- 
ville, in 1877. Their factory is located at Newark, N. J., where they 
employ between fifty and one hundred skilled workmen, and turn out 
annually several hundred thousand dollars' worth of goods. The 
Chicago branch of this extensive house is under the management of 
Mr. C. A. Meeker, who was, previous to coming to Chicago, in the 
employ of the firm at their factory, and who is well posted in all 
branches of the business. Their store at 180 Wabash Avenue is a large 
and commodious building, and their stock comprises a complete assort- 
ment of harness, robes, whips and turf goods generally. The Chicago 
branch does a retail business principally and makes a specialty of fine 
goods. 

The Blakely Printing Company, 184 and 186 Monroe Street, have 
one of the best equipped and most complete printing establishments 
in the country, comprising twenty steam presses and all the other 
"ingredients" of a first-class printing office, in proportion. The enter- 
prise was started in 1871, by C. F. Blakely, and the firm subsequently 
became Blakely & Brown, then Blakely, Brown & Marsh, and, in 1883, 
was incorporated as the Blakely-Marsh Printing Co., changing to its 
present title in 1885. D. Blakely is president, C. F. Blakely, vice- 
president and treasurer, and J. A. Bockius, secretary. The capital 
stock is $50,000, and the company do an annual business of over 
$200,000, with 132 employes and a pay-roll of over $7,000 per month. 
They occupy two floors, each 45 X 90 feet, giving them over 17,000 feet 
of floor space. They do all kinds of printing, including a great deal of 
newspaper work, but make a specialty of fine book and catalogue work. 

S. J. Surdam & Co., general hardware and stoves, 178 East Lake 
Street. This business was begun by Mr. S. J. Surdam, in 1839. The 
existing firm was established in 1852, the members being S. J. Surdam 
and A. Stelle. The building they occupy is owned by Mr. Surdam and 
embraces four stories and basement, each 20X160 feet. They carry a 
large and diversified stock of shelf and heavy hardware, cutlery, stoves, 
etc. This firm have enjoyed a prosperous career, their business having 
steadily grown from the first. They have cultivated favorable relations 
with producers, enabling them to offer superior inducements to buyers. 
Their affairs are conducted with enterprise and judgment, and the firm 
have the confidence and patronage of the trade to whose needs they 
minister. 



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George B. Carpenter & Co., and their immediate predecessors in the 
house they now represent, have been prominently identified with every 

step of the com- 
mercial develop- 
ment of Chicago 
for more than a 
third of a century. 
The business was 
established in 1840 
by Geo. A. Kobb, 
only three years 
after Chicago had 
been incorporated 
as a city. Five 
years later,in 1845, 
a partner was ad- 
mitted under the 
^ name and style of 
Payson & Eobb. 
In 1850 Payson re- 
Geo. B. Carpenter & Co., Cor. South Water St. and Fifth Ave. tired and Gilbert 
Hubbard entered the firm, the name changing to Hubbard & Kobb . Upon 
the death of Mr. Eobb in 1857, Gilbert Hubbard & Co. succeeded, and 
during the twenty years following |^ 

advanced the house to a leading _ p% 

position in the trade, and the name f ir. r ~ 

of Gilbert Hubbard & Co. became "i ."■__- 
a household word throughout the 
whole western country. Gilbert 
Hubbard died in May, 1881, and 
on the first day of the following 
year the vast business of the old 
concern passed into the hands of 
Geo. B. Carpenter & Co., who have 
since managed it with the same 
far-reaching enterprise and un- 
swerving integrity that charac- 
terized the Old establishment Occupied from 1859 to 1871. 
through so many years of eventful history. To-day Geo. B. Car- 
penter & Co. constitute the oldest and most favorably known 




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ship chandlery house in the west. From 1859 until the great fire of 
1871 reduced Che city to ashes, the concern occupied a large iron front 
building at Nos. 205 and 207 South Water Street. An accompanying 
illustration presents 
the building as it then 
appeared. It was 
burned to the ground 
on the night of Octo- 
ber 9th of that mem- 
orable year; but be- 
fore the ruins were yet 
cold a tent was erected 
above the smoldering 
embers, and Gilbert 
Hubbard & Co. an- 
nounced that they 
were ready to proceed 
with business. The 
tent answered the 

purposes of more ap- After the Fire of October 9, 1871. 

propriate quarters until the ruins of an old grain warehouse at 
14 and 16 Market Street were boarded up and put into order for the 
reception of a stock of ship chandlery goods. The new establishment 
was occupied in November following the fire, and was considered a 

great curiosity in its way 
at that time. Fully half 
of the rude structure was 
below the level of the 
sidewalks, as will be seen 
by the illustration on this 
page. In April, 1872, 
the business was removed 
to a capacious three story 
building — one of the lar- 
gest and best that had 
14 and 16 market Street, 1871- been erected after the 

fire — located at 226 to 232 South Water Street. In 1874 the 
erection of the present building was begun, and a year later it was 
completed and occupied. It is situated on the northeast corner of 
South Water Street and Fifth Avenue, is five stories in height;, and is 




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one of the best business structures in that locality. The upper story is 
used as a general storage room. The sail loft is on the fourth floor, 
and is the best equipped apartment of the kind in the country. The 
third floor is devoted chiefly to manufacturing purposes, and presents 

at all times a busy scene. 
On thesecond floor is stored 
a large variety of the lighter 
class of goods, such as cotton 
duck, in all Avidths, and 
twines and cordage of all 
weights. The offices and gen- 
eral salesrooms are on the 
first floor. In the cellar— a 
light, airy and perfectly dry 
apartment — are stored large 
quantities of heavy goods, 
including wire-rope, large 
sizes of manilla rope, heavy 
hardware and supplies for 

Occupied from 1872 to 1874. saw-mills, flour-mills, rolling- 

mills, mining companies and railroads. As manufacturers of tents, 
of every description, awnings, rain-proof covers, and, in fact, every- 
thing belonging to this branch of business, Messrs. Carpenter & Co. 
stand without a peer. 

Albert Dickinson is the leading seed merchant of the west, if not 
of the country, and his house is one of the oldest in the business. It 
was established in 1854, in a very modest way, by A. F. Dickins n, 
father of the present proprietor, as a South Water Street general com- 
mission and seed house. Albert Dickinson succeeded to the business 
in 1872, since which time the transactions of the house have been 
confined exclusively to the trade in field seeds of every variety. The 
business has grown very rapidly, especially during the last ten years, 
and the trade of the house - now extends to all parts of the United 
States ; also to Canada, Europe and other foreign countries. The build- 
ings occupied comprise three spacious warehouses located, respect- 
ively, at 115 to 119 Kinzie Street ; 104 to 110 Michigan Street, and 
198 to 204 Market Street. The stock carried embraces every variety 
of field seeds — clover, timothy, millet, flax, orchard grass, blue grass, 
red top, etc., also bird seeds and pop corn — and is always sufficient to 
meet any demand. The office and salesrooms are at 115 Kinzie Street. 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 307 

The Diebold Safe and Lock Company is represented in Chicago by 
its vice-president and western manager, John W. Norris. Although the 
manufactory of the company is located at Canton, Ohio, it may justly 
be classed as a Chicago institution. The vice-president of the company 
resides here, and its principal ware and sales-rooms are located in this 
city, which is the leading distributing point for the enormous product 
of the Canton factory. The business was established in 1860, and has 
steadily grown to the present immense proportions. The works now 
constitute one of the largest safe manufactories in the world. They 
give employment to nearly 1,000 operatives, and have capacity for 
turning out about fifty safes every twenty-four hours. The equipment 
of machinery and tools is the most complete that has been devised for 
the manufacture of fire and burglar-proof safes. Much of the machin- 
ery and other appliances were made expressly for the manufacture of 
special portions of the Diebold safes and locks, and are used exclusively 
by this concern. The use of the very best materials and the employ- 
ment of these facilities in the hands of thoroughly skilled workmen in 
every department of the manufacture, secure a production as nearly 
perfect as it is possible to be, and the quality of the Diebold safe is 
unequaled by that of any other makers. Branch offices are established 
in all the principal cities of the country, and over 100,000 of these 
safes are now in use. This Chicago house has supplied all the leading 
banks, railroad companies, express companies, hotels, newspaper offices 
and corporations in Chicago and throughout the northwest with fire 
and burglar-proof protection of their valuables. Among such concerns 
in this city are: The First National Bank, the Commercial National 
Bank, the Merchants' National Bank, the Northwestern National Bank, 
and the National Bank of Illinois. The new City Hall has fifty vault 
doors and much other work of the Diebold Company's, and over $40,- 
000 worth of its work has been placed in the new county court-house. 
The Diebold safe is the standard and accepted champion throughout 
the great northwest, and this popularity is well deserved, as is shown 
by the thousands of voluntary testimonials sent to Mr. Norris by patrons 
whose safes have been tested by burglars or by fire. The sales of the 
Chicago house now aggregate nearly $1,000,000 annually. It is loca- 
ted at 57 State Street, the leading business thoroughfare, and in the. 
very business center of the city. The stock of safes displayed here is 
always large and interesting. Visitors in Chicago should not fail to go 
through these salesrooms and inspect the wonderful safes, and time 
and combination locks, the mysterious workings of which are at 



308 MARQUIS' BAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

all times cheerfully explained by an expert in the employ of the 
company. 

Edward Ely & Co., the famous tailors, occupy r: oms at the south- 
west corner of Wabash Avenue and Monroe Street. These apartments 
are located on the second floor of the building, and are fitted up in 
complete harmony with the purposes for which they are used. Messrs. 
Ely & Co. have long held the leading position of their vocation in 
Chicago, and they have, without doubt, done more to promote a high 
standard of elegance in gentlemen's dress than any other house in the 
entire west. Their fame is not confined to local or narrow boundaries, 
and the name of Edward Ely & Co. is familiar to people of refinement 
and culture in all parts of the country ; and from this class is largely 
drawn their extensive patronage. The line of goods kept in stock 
by them represents the products of the most celebrated looms of the 
world. And possessing rare judgment and taste and the high artistic 
talent requisite for clothing a man of refinement and character with 
true fitness and expression, coupled with ample capital, extensive 
patronage, and a long, varied and successful experience, they are ena- 
bled to meet every demand of an exacting and appreciative public. 

Sargent, Greenleaf & Brooks, automatic sprinklers, Gray's Patent 
Dry Pipe system, 43 and 45 Franklin Street. This representative 
Chicago house, established in 1872, is represented by Mr. S. N. Brooks, 
resident partner, and has for its correspondent the house of Sargent <fc 
Greenleaf, of Rochester, N. Y. Its specialty is the manufacture and 
sale of the celebrated Gray's Automatic Sprinkler, a patent dry pipe 
system, which automatically and unfailingly extinguishes a fire orig- 
inating in any building where the pipes have been placed. The pipes 
are attached to the ceiling of the buildings, and the automatic 
sprinklers to the pipes; a generation of 160 degrees of heat melts the 
solder in the sprinkler head, releases the water gate, and the flames 
are quickly drowned out. A very small fire almost immediately sets 
the device in operation, and the flames are speedily extinguished. 
This fire -extinguishing device is approved by insurance companies, and 
a much lower rate of insurance is exacted from buildings protected by 
the Gray Automatic Sprinkler. Hundreds of testimonials are on file 
from property holders whose buildings have been saved by this device, 
and also from associations of fire underwriters, etc. This hous*» deals 
in adjustable sheet metal elbows, Sargent & Greenleaf 's unpickable 
key locks, time and combination bank and safe locks, spiral riveted pipe 
for compressed air, exhaust steam, city water works, hydraulic mining, 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 309 

etc. This company, at their Chicago house, 43 and 45 Franklin Street, 
employ some twenty persons. A specialty is made of an adjustable 
sheet metal elbow for stoves and other pipes, from one and one-half 
inch to ten inches in diameter, which in tin, galvanized, Eussia, plan- 
ished or charcoal iron is sold to jobbers in every large city from the 
Atlantic Coast to the Missouri Kiver. 

Abram Cox Stove Co., stoves, ranges and furnaces, 76 Wabash 
Avenue. This is one of the oldest, largest and most important houses 
in its line in the United States. It was established in 1847, and ever 
since has maintained the supremacy for the extent of its manufacture, 
excellence of workmanship and the superior quality of its goods. The 
company was incorporated, with Abram C. Mott, as president; George 
E. Hopkins, secretary, and R. Kahmar, treasurer. The Chicago branch 
was established in 1885, and Edward P. Mott, a brother of the head of 
the house, was instituted general Western agent. The works are at 
Philadelphia, and employ 275 men. The Western agency has attained 
to high importance, having an extensive trade in Minnesota. Wisconsin, 
Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. 

U. S. Desk and Office Fitting Co., store and office furniture and 
fixtures, 194 LaSalle Street. This business was established in 1868, 
by Mr. William Lumley. In the great fire of 1871. he was burned out, 
but soon after reopened business at Monroe and LaSalle Streets, where 
he remained for nine years, removing later to 128 Fifth Avenue, since 
which he has remained in the immediate neighborhood of his present 
offices and salesrooms, 194 LaSalle Street. The business was incor- 
porated in 1 886. The factories are in Calhoun Place, between LaSalle 
Street and Fifth Avenue, and at Nos. 18 and 20 Sloan Street. The 
firm makes a specialty of fine office and store furniture and fittings, 
and keep a constant supplv of the best kiln-dried lumber. They 
employ only the most efficient workmen and are always prepared to 
undertake any work in their line. Their trade is with the best business 
firms of Chicago and neighboring towns, and surrounding country. 

R. W. Tansill is a name as familiar as any household word all over 
the western hemisphere and the Southern Pacific. His cigars are the 
best known of any proprietory brand in the world. In many Southern 
countries the name of Tansill is almost talismanic in its significance. 

The business is solely the manufacture of cigars, in which such 
special and well known excellences are reached, that it is the largest 
cigar manufacturing house in the world. Especial efforts have been put 
forth in the manufacture and exploiting of the justly celebrated "Tan- 



310 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

sill's Punch" cigar, and the returns are gladdening to the projector's 
soul. The sales of this one brand from their Chicago house alone have 
exceeded 12,000,000 per year. 

The history of this business is the history of Mr. Tansill's life. It 
most signally illustrates the value of brains and ideas in the well worn 
fields of advertising. The start of the new, young and untried enter- 
prise was necessarily laborious and painful, but when the merits of the 
system and the value of uniformly reliable goods once became known, 
the public was more than generous in its recognition of merit. 

At present the house has every facility to supply its immense trade, 
but it could be indefinitely increased if needed. As they aim to only 
keep up with the retailers all over the United States, Canadas, South 
America, Australia and New South "Wales, there is no pretense of carry- 
ing a stock beyond these needs, and there is absolutely no old stock to 
carry at a loss or work off at a sacrifice. With from 1,200 to 1,500 
employes engaged in the manufacture of cigars, under the most central 
and economical system possible, with the unique system of selling 
through local agents, and without a single drummer in their employ, the 
force of genius compelling the printing press and the government mail 
service to do what must otherwise, under the old systems, cost the 
keeping of an army of salesmen, the whole of which is saved to the 
dealer (their agents) and the consumer. Taking these into considera- 
tion, and the secret of success of this immense concern is not hard to 
apprehend. Mr. Tansill has grown up in the pursuit of his business; 
his life has entered into it. Born in Virginia, yet he is the most typical 
of Chicagoans, and his qualities as a citizen are not the least lustrous 
in his career. 

Giles Brothers & Company, jewelers, 99-101 State Street. This 
is the largest and oldest established jewelry house in the Northwest, 
and the only house which has ever engaged in diamond and precious 
stone cutting. The brothers, W. A. and C. K. Giles, established the 
jewelry business in Chicago a quarter of a century ago, and have 
prosecuted it ever since. The senior brother retired from the firm, but 
the junior partner remains, and is president of the incorporated com- 
pany, associated with E. Morris, vice-president, and J. V. Ridgway, 
secretary and treasurer. The manufactory and salesroom occupy two 
spacious floors, at 99 and 101 State Street. In the workshop, on the 
second floor, upward of one hundred skilled men are employed, in the 
manufacture of new and original designs of jewelry, principally for the 
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Giles Brothers & Company is known and recognized throughout the 
country, and their manufacture stamp is sufficient to popularize all 
goods. The Giles Brothers are the sole manufacturers of the patent 
anti-magnetic shield for the protection of fine watches from electrical 
influences. This house imports largely from Europe, new designs in 
jewelry, statuettes, bric-a-brac, clocks, and articles of virtu. 

Clement, Bane & Co., manufacturers of clothing, 202 to 210 
Franklin Street, is another of those old and solid concerns, whose 
immense trade, 
wide reputation 
and substantial 
financial and 
commercial 
character, are 
the foundation 
of Chicago's 
mercantile em- 
pire. The house 
was founded in 
1867, by H. C. 
Clement and 
others, as Clem- 
ent, Ottinan & 
Co. Subse- 
quently the 
firm was chang - 
ed to Clement, 
Morton & Co., 
and the latter 
were burned 
out at Nos. 27 
and 29 Ean- 
dolph Street 
during the 

great fire. They continued business for the year after the fire in a 
frame building on Michigan Avenue, and for the next three years 
found better quarters at the corner of State and Madison, removing 
thenca for greater room and convenience to the corner of Madison 
Street and Wabash Avenue, where they remained five years, when 
they removed, in 1880, to their present spacious and central premises 




Clement, Bane & Co., Cor Adams and Franklin Streets. 



312 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

at the northwest corner of Adams and Franklin Streets. They occupy 
an elegant five-story block, with basement, fronting 100 feet on 
Franklin Street and 160 feet on Adams, and giving them 96,000 square 
feet of floor space in which to store, display and handle the enormous 
stock necessary to enable them to meet all demands of their extensive 
trade promptly and satisfactorily. They keep thirty to forty cutters 
constantly employed, each keeping thirty to forty hands occupied in 
making up after him, so that the number of their employes, including 
twenty travelers, exceeds 1,000. Their trade extends eastward into 
Michigan and Ohio, and throughout the West and Northwest, and their 
annual business is about $1,200,000, while their yearly pay-roll 
requires one-fourth that sum. The firm was incorporated as a stock 
company in 1885, with Austin Clemen^t as president and Levi B. Bane 
as treasurer. The capital stock is nominally $300,000, but abundant 
additional funds are furnished by the stockholders, and the average 
capital actively employed in the business is more than a half million of 
dollars. Before the incorporation the trade aggregated over two mill- 
ions per annum, but the company has since pursued a conservative 
policy that has cut down its output more nearly within reach of its 
capacity, which is still close pressed to supply the demand. 

The Erie Express, Wm. W. Chandler, Jr., general agent, Nos. 140 
and 142 Monroe Street, illustrates the wisdom of extensive railroad 
systems undertaking their own express business. It must be said, how- 
ever, that the express inaugurated in May, 1886, by the Erie system, 
has been under exceptionally judicious and energetic management. 
The Chicago office was opened July 15th, the U. S. Express Company 
withdrawing their equipment and service, and the new enterprise 
started auspiciously over all the lines of the New York, Lake Erie and 
Western railway branches and connections. It commenced with 
reduced rates, but has shown a remarkable increase of business, and 
the Erie Express now takes rank with the first-class express accommo- 
dations of the country. Mr. W. M. Clements, the general manager, 
was for a long time general manager of the B. & 0. K'y main lines, and 
afterwards of the N. Y. P. & O., and is thoroughly experienced and 
competent. His enterprising management has been admirably sup- 
ported and advanced by able lieutenants. Mr. ('handler was for two and 
a half years agent here for the Adams, but was induced to take charge 
of the Erie's interests at this point. Under such experienced control 
the Erie is doing most excellent and prompt public service, and hand- 
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the numbers given is commodious and central, and supplied with every 
needed facility. Twelve wagons are constantly traversing the city, and 
forty-six men are employed. The stables are in the rear of 396 
Wabash Avenue, and the depot office on 3d Avenue near Taylor Street. 
Haines Bros., piano manufacturers, 366 Wabash Avenue. The 
Haines Brothers (Napoleon J. Haines and Francis W. Haines) are one 
of the oldest houses in the United States engaged in the manufacture 
of pianofortes, having been established in New York City in 1851, and 
continued the trade with marked success for the past thirty-five years. 
Their two immense factories are located on the east side of Second 
Avenue, occupying both corners of Twenty-first Street. Over 200 
skilled workmen are constantly employed in the various departments 
turning out some 1 ,400 instruments yearly. The claim that this house 
manufactures the best upright piano in the market is generally 
acknowledged. They use the best seasoned wood in making their cases, 
felt for hammers, glue, varnish, and every other article required, 
price being no object. The Haines Bros, pianos are sold all over 
the United States and Canada, and many of them are exported to 
Europe and South America. Their merit has been recognized by the 
greatest musical artists. The prima donna, Adelina Patti, ordered one 
to be made for her which she now has in her castle at Swansea, South 
Wales, and she has many times expressed her great delight with it. 
Etelka Gerster also ordered one, which she has at her villa at Bologna, 
and says: "Neither in Europe nor America have I s een an upright that 
equaled yours in pure singing quality and great volume of tone or 
elasticity and evenness of action." Alwina Valleria and Emma Abbott 
are also the happy possessors of one of these remarkable upright 
pianos. Christine Nilsson, Clara Louise Kellogg, Scalchi, Marie Roze, 
Carl Formes, Ole Bull, Brignoli. used and commended them in the 
highest terms. The Haines Bros, have but one branch house, which is 
located in Chicago, at 366 Wabash Avenue. Same being established 
for the convenience of their Western trade, so that their numerous deal- 
ers can be supplied direct from headquarters at factory prices. It is 
under the management of Mr. Thos. Floyd-Jones, who has been con- 
nected with them for the past sixteen years. Their warerooms are 
filled with beautifully designed styles. Cases being made of rosewood, 
figured mahogany, French walnut, and ebonized finish on cherry. 
They are grand in appearance, and in tone, power, responsiveness of 
touch, evenness of register, singing capacity, and clear and sustaining 
articulation; they are truly a superb instrument. Manager Floy d- Jones 



314 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

has won a high reputation for his superior business qualifications in 
conducting the branch house, and the firm could not be better or more 
fittingly represented in the Empire City of the West. 

The Henry Dibblee Co., mantels, grates and tiles, 266 and 268 
"Wabash Avenue. This house was established in 1873, by Henry 
Dibblee. It was incorporated in 1886 with a capital stock of $75,000, 
and Henry Dibblee was chosen president, E. D. Eedington, secretary 
and treasurer, and Anson S. Hopkins, vice-president and general man- 
ager. The trade of this house extends over every section of Illinois, 
and also into Wisconsin, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and Indiana. The 
house is one of the largest in its line of goods in the country, and in 
the specialty of mantels, tiles and grates, leads all other houses. They 
manufacture both wood and slate mantels, and control the sale of the 
celebrated Low's art tiles. The liberal and honorable dealings which 
have characterized this popular house, have had the result to favorably 
extend their reputation. The individual members of the firm are held 
in the highest esteem, both commercially and socially. 

The Barbour Brothers Co., manufacturers of linen thread, 108 
and 110 Franklin Street. This is the largest thread manufacturing 
establishment in the world, and was started originally at Lisburn, Ire- 
land, by William Barbour, 104 years ago, where the colossal thread 
manufacturing house of the world employed 4,000 operatives in their 
mills. The busic ess was extended to the United States some twenty- 
three years ago, and the house now has works established at Paterson, 
N. J., which employ 2,000 operatives. The firm manufactures shoe 
and tailor thread, wax and sewing machine threads, carpet, saddlers', 
glove, bookbinders', seine and gilling threads, sail twines and macreme 
lace threads in all sizes. Eobert and William Barbour conduct the 
business in this country, the former making his regular headquarters 
at the mill in Paterson, and the latter at the sales warehouse and gen- 
eral business office in New York City, while John D. manages the 
original business in Ireland. They are grandsons of the original 
founder, William Barbour, of a century ago. The Chicago branch of 
this patriarchal house was begun some eight months since, in order to 
supply the Western trade, which has grown to be enormous. The 
Western agency is in charge of General Manager Ben. Bartlett, who 
has a commodious and pleasant office, centrally located at 108 and 110 
Franklin Street. Mr. Bartlett is a thoroughly practical man, and has 
been with this house the past twenty years, most of the time as their 
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in all parts of the South, West and Northwest. The house which Mr. 
Bartlett represents has branch agencies in Boston, Philadelphia, San 
Francisco, Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin, Paris, Hamburg, Montreal, 
Melbourne, Sydney, Brussels, Amsterdam, Madrid, Milan and Naples. 
J. Dunfee & Co., wood carpet or American parquetrie, 102 East 
Washington Street. The business of this house was established, in 
1872, by Jonathan Dunfee. From 1880 to 1883, the firm was com- 

posedof -Jonathan Dunfee 
and Goram F. Baker, but 
since 1883, Mr. Dunfee 
has conducted the busi- 
ness alone. In addition 
to the business of manu- 
facturing wood carpet 
and inlaid floors, the firm 
makes a specialty of 
moldings and weather 
strips, and have a cele- 
brated line of weather 
strips called the " Cham- 
pion" of which they man- 
ufacture 40,000 feet per 
day. Their factory is 
located at 201 to 212 
South Clinton Street, oc- 
cupying the whole of the 
second floors, while their 
office is at 102 East Wash 
ington Street. Their 
trade extends all over the 
Union, and into Canada, 
and amounts to $100,- 
000 annually. Their 
wood carpeting, or ornamental hard-wood floor laid on top of the 
original floor, is growing in popularity and coming into general use, 
and combines beauty and utility. The work of this firm has been 
pronounced to be equal in durability, beauty and finish, to the best 
in Europe. A vast variety of designs in centre-pieces, borders, etc., 
is kept constantly in stock. 




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Murphy & Company, varnishes, 262 Wabash Avenue. This house 
is a branch of an extensive Eastern incorporation, having directors and 
resident managers in New York, Cleveland, St. Louis and Chicago. 
Franklin Murphy, of Newark, N. J., is the president; Charles D. Ettin- 
ger, of Chicago, is the secretary, and E. H. Taylor, the resident man- 
ager. The factories are located at Newark and Cleveland. Their busi- 
ness was begun in 1864, and has now reached an extent of half 
a million gallons annually. The Chicago warehouse and office, 262 
Wabash Avenue, is adapted to a business requiring most watchful care 
and exercise of judgment in meeting the necessities of the many trades 
in which varnish is an important factor. In the warehouse is carried a 
stock of from 35,000 to 40,000 gallons of all the different qualities, 
kinds and grades of railway, carriage, cabinet, piano and house painters' 
varnishes and japans. "The Story of the Murphy Varnishes" is an 
elegant pamphlet of twenty-four pages, published by them for gratui- 
tous distribution and describes in colloquial style the process of manu- 
facture of varnish, the detail and extent of their business, and is 
elegantly illustrated with interior and exterior views of their factories 
and departments. This house stands unquestionably as the largest 
and most important in the business, whether considered as regards 
quality of their product or amount of sales. 

E. S. & W. S. Fowler, manufacturing opticians and optical goods, 
103 to 107 State Street. That the Fowler Bros., still young men, 
should locate in Chicago is no more a tribute to their business sagacity 
than it is proof of the cosmopolitan character of the Great Western 
metropolis. In the manufacture of optical goods a nicety and precision 
is required. The business of E S. & W. S. Fowler in five years' time 
has become firmly established. This firm makes a specialty of grinding 
lenses for all kinds of of optical instruments, and is the only firm in 
Chicago which utilizes steam power for this purpose. They manufacture 
exclusively spectacle frames, and in their test cases for oculists and 
opticians, in which a graduated scale determines the proper selection of 
lenses for the customer, they have conferred a decided boon upon suf- 
fering humanity . This house is introducing a new order of industry west 
of the lakes, and though only five years in operation, it is one cf the 
most successful enterprises of the city. At their store and factory 103 
to 107 State Street, all kinds of optical instruments, materials and 
findings for the trade .can be found. This house deals in telescopes, 
microscopes, thermometers, lenses of every kind and description, 
opera glasses, optical instruments of all kinds, spectacles and eye- 



MARQUIS' HXND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 317 

glasses, scientific instruments, etc.; while their factory possesses facili- 
ties and their workmen the skill, which enables them to undertake 
successfully the grinding any kind of lens and executing to order any 
optical work. The whole South and West pays willing tribute to the 
excellence of their goods. 

Union Steam Boiler Works, McGarry & Leonard, proprietors, 36 
to 42 East Indiana Street. This business was established in 1881, by 
Messrs. P. McGarry, J. Leonard, B. McCarron, Nic. Schneider and Wm. 
Becker. In 1884, Messrs. McCarron, Schneider and Becker retired 
from the firm Mr. E. Krueger taking Mr. Schneider's place, which he 
held until August 1, 1886, when he also retired. The firm occupies 
the one-story and basement building, 86x100 feet, at 36 to 42 East 
Indiana Street, which is specially adapted to the business of boiler- 
making, and is fitted up with all the machinery necessary to the effi- 
cient prosecution of the business. The firm manufactures every size 
and description of marine, stationary and locomotive boilers, lard tanks, 
coolers, sheet iron work of all kinds and everything in the iron plate 
line. As only the most skilled labor is employed and the best materials 
used in the work turned out by this firm, it has established a reputation 
for superiority of workmanship which has extended the trade of the 
firm to every section of the country, and they have even shipped work 
to the West Indies. In addition to the manufacturing branch of their 
business, the firm pays special attention to repair-work of all kinds, 
which they do in good, workmanlike manner, giving prompt attention 
to all orders and guaranteeing satisfaction in every instance. The 
twenty-five experienced workmen in the employ of this firm are kept 
constantly at work to supply the demands of their trade, which shows 
a steady increase every year and indicates a successful career for the 
firm. 

Orr & Lockett, dealers in hardware, cutlery and tools, 184 and 186 
Clark Street, make a specialty of fine building hardware for public and 
private houses, but carry a heavy sto -k in all lines. The firm is com- 
posed of Frank B. Orr and Oswald Lockett, both experienced hardware 
men, having been in the business for over twenty years. Their opera- 
tions have figured largely in the re-building of the city, and their bus- 
iness has had a marked and rapid growth, due to their energy and 
enterprise, their thorough acquaintance Avith all the details of the trade, 
and their strict integrity in the fulfilment of contracts. This is the 
leading retail hardware house of the city. 



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Chicago Stained Glass Works, Max Suess & Co., proprietors, 216 
East Lake Street. This house manufactures artistic, domestic, eccle- 
siastical and ornamental stained glass, furnishing designs and estimates 
on all orders on receipt of size of windows. The business has steadily 
increased since its inception, and the house has an extensive trade in 
the East, West, North and South. The firm, occupy the third floor 
at 216 East Lake Street, 25X120 feet, and succeed Eeimer, Flanni- 
gan & Vogt. That the reader may form an idea of the standing of the 
house and the esteem it is held in in local circles, it may be mentioned 
that they were awarded the contract by the city for furnishing glass 
signs for 12,000 street lamps. Their factory is equipped with all the 
modern machinery and appliances for the successful prosecution of their 
business. They carry a large stock of imported articles, embracing 
everything in their line, and have established most favorable relations 
with producers enabling them to offer unsurpassed inducements to 
customers. 

P. Ringer & Co., book-binders, Nos. 52 and 54 Wabash Avenue. 
In this establishment one gets an earnest of the \ eculiar excellence of 
some of Chicago's enterprises. Some twenty years ago, when Mr. 
Einger began the establishment in a humble way, there were book- 
binders here, but it was supposed that if any one wanted anything of 
peculiar excellence, or artistic design and execution, or of costly and 
novel character, done in this line of work, it would of necessity be done 
across the ocean, barely possible in New York or Philadelphia. 

This is all changed now in Mr. Ringer's establishment; everything 
known to the book- binders' art in the use or manipulation of any kind 
of materials, all mechanical devices, and where known and approved, 
skill and ingenuity in design, experience in application, besides novel 
and peculiar features of their own, can be found in this house. It has 
grown because of its many excellences, and is a survival of those fittest 
to survive. 

It is appreciated and honored by doing the sole work for many of 
our wealthiest, most literary and artistic citizens and eleemosynary 
corporations. It employs through the year some thirty skilled employes 
and saves to the country in general and Chicago in particular a large 
sum that erstwhile was spent abroad. People only consult their own 
benefit and inclination when patronage is bestowed on this firm. 

Mr. P. Einger is an old and well known citizen, who has conceived 
and carefully worked out, his idea; the value of his contribution to 
Chicago's enterprises can scarcely be over-estimated. Mr. H. Veit, the 



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co-partner in the enterprise came, in later years, when the growth of 
the concern had made a division of labor necessary. Mr. V. is a practical 
workman and the details are in his hands, eyery item of which under- 
goes his constant scrutiny. 

Coffin^ Devoe & Co., leading manufacturers and importers of paints, 
white lead, colors, varnishes, brushes and artists' materials, occupy a 
spacious four-story and basement building, 190 feet in depth, at No. 
176 Eandolph Street. It is thoroughly equipped for handling the 
large and increasing business of the firm. The parent house — F. W. 
Devoe & Co., New York — was established in 1853, and has the largest 
works of the kind in the world. The Chicago house dates from Jan. 1, 
1883. It is composed of Frederick W. Devoe, president ; Gorham B. 
Coffin, vice-president ; J. Seymour Currey, secretary and treasurer. 

Mr. Devoe was formerly of the 



firm of Eaynolds, Devoe & Pratt, 
the oldest paint house in the 
United States. Thus, with unsur- 
passed facilities, commanding 
the highest order of skill and 
experience in the preparation 
of their goods, using only the 
purest materials and employing 
the most convenient and prompt 
methods for supplying the trade, 
the remarkable success of this 
house is clearly the natural result 
of the conditions mentioned. 
They are masters of their busi- 
ness, and have made the best 
interests of the trade their study 
and aim. A heavy stock is kep 
in every line. The specialties of 
their own manufacture include 
chemically pure dry colors, coach and car colors, prepared paints, 
varnishes, brushes, tube colors, and artists' materials. These goods 
are prepared with extreme care at the extensive works of F. W. 
Devoe & Co., in New York, under the direction of Mr. James F. 
Drummond, member of the firm, who has superintended this de- 
partment for thirty years. This fact is a sufficient guarantee of 
the excellence of their manufactures, Messrs. Coffin, Devoe & 




Coffin, Devoe & Co., 176 Randolph St. 



320 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

Co. are pleased at all times to receive visits from all merchants 
and manufacturers who are interested in their line of goods, and 
an examination of their entire st~ck and premises is most cordially 
invited. 

The Chicago Furniture Storage Co., Nos. 350 and 352 Wabash 
Avenue. Prominent among the leading and most reliable storage ware- 
houses in Chicago is that of the Chicago Furniture Storage Company ? 
at Nos, 350 and 352 Wabash Avenue. The building occupied is spa- 
cious and substantially constructed, the interior arrangements being 
perfect and affording every facility for the safe and secure storage of 
furniture, pianos, mirrors, works of art, and personal property of every 
description. The floors are large, well ventilated, and free from mcist 
ure or dampness. There is also a number of private compartments with 
lock, key, etc. The premises are guarded night and day by watchmen, 
and only the most experienced men are employed to handle goods. 
This company was organized in 1875 and since its inception has 
enjoyed a most successful career. They have occupied their present 
handsome building since February, 1885. Mr. D. C. VanCott, pres- 
ident, is an energetic, clear-headed business man, honorable and fair 
in all transactions, and deservedly popular with all classes of the com- 
munity. Mr. F. G. Sutton, the secretary and treasurer, is a gentleman 
of marked ability and sterling integrity. Under the judicious and 
liberal management of these gentlemen the affairs of the company are 
prospering, and its patronage steadily increasing. 

The Chicago Rawhide Manufacturing Co., rawhide belting, lace 
leather, etc., 75 and 77"East Ohio Street. The officers of this company, 
which was established in 1877 and incorporated in 1878, are A. B. 
Spurling, president; A. C. Krueger, superintendent, and W. H. Preble, 
secretary and treasurer. The business was started at 38 and 40 West 
Monroe Street, and removed to its present location in 1882. The 
company manufactures rawhide belting, lace leather, rope, lariats, fly 
nets, picker leather, stock and farm whips, washers, hame straps, hame 
strings, halters and other rawhide goods of all kinds, by Krueger's 
patent. They have a patent on their hide curing process, two patents 
on hide working machines, five on stuffing, one on belt trimming 
machine and one on stretching machine, all of which are very valuable. 
The belt trimming machine will do the work of twenty-five men, and 
trims both edges at once. The company makes everything in the line 
of belting, round, square and flat rope and twist styles, that is used, 
from the smallest to the largest diameter. The rawhide twist and rope 



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belting is made in sizes from one-sixteenth of an inch to three inches 
or larger, and this is the only house in the country that makes it. The 
premises occupied are a four-story and basement building 50X100 
feet, and the largest in the Union in this line of business. Forty men 
are constantly employed in the factory, which is fitted up with the 
special machinery covered by the patents owned by the company. 
The trade of the house, which amounts to fully $100,000 annually, 
extends all over the Union, besides which the company has a very large 
and rapidly increasing trade with Australia and Canada. The success 
achieved by the company is demonstrated by the fact that the capital 
stock of the original par value of $150,000 is now worth $375,000, 
net. Their processes of manufacture exclude the use of either lime or 
acid, and as the life and strength of the hide is preserved and only the 
very best native hides are used, the belt and lace leather manufactured 
by the company is the most pliable and durable ever used for these 
I urposes. At the "National Exposition of Railway Appliances" held in 
Chicago, in 1883, the first prize for rawhide belting and lace leather 
was awarded to this company. 

Blake, Shaw & Co., Dake bakery, corner Clinton and Adams Streets. 
This representative and pioneer Western industry was begun twenty- 
five years ago by Joseph M. Dake, and has been conducted the past 
seventeen years by E. Nelson Blake, William W. Shaw and C. H. Mar- 
shall, under the firm name of Blake, Shaw & Co. The company occupy 
the entire building, four stories and basement, each floor 65x200 feet, 
at the corner of Adams and Clinton Streets. The firm consume in 
then* baking operations 1,000 barrels of flour weekly. They employ 
upward of 150 persons in their extensive business, and their weekly 
pay-roll is about $1,200, paid to help in said building. Their city trade 
is enormous, and they ship hundreds of barrels and boxes of crackers, 
biscuits, etc., daily to all important points in the North, South and 
West. Their specialty is crackers and cakes, absolutely the finest goods 
in the country. This house has experienced a steady growth in its 
business from the first. Its bakery is equipped with every modern 
improvement for successful operation, and the company maintains the 
most favorable relations with millers and producers for the purchase of 
all its supplies, and is enabled to offer its patrons unsurpassed induce- 
ments. The business is conducted with ability, enterprise and judg- 
ment, and the company have an enviable reputation and command the 
confidence of the trade to whose requirements their efforts have been 
so earnestly and successfully directed. 



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Billings, Sheldon & Co., dealers in iron mines and mining stocks. 
This firm, composed of H. F. Billings, E. P. Sheldon^ J. M. Lyon and 
Moore, Benjamin & Co., was established in 1886. Its offices and Goge- 
bic Mining Exchange, are at 84 Washington Street. In addition to 
their business in iron mines and iron mining stocks, they also deal in 
mining properties of every description, in timber lands, ranches and 
land grants. The specialty of the firm is iron mines in the Gogebic 
range, and iron mining stocks. The Gogebic range, lying in Ashland 
County, Wisconsin, and Ontonagon County, Michigan, has recently 
attracted interested attention because of the wonderful developments 
and discoveries of immense bodies of iron ore in that district. Many 
valuable mines have been developed, and many more only await the 
hand of enterprise to yield up their wealth to those who will invest in 
them and utilize their resources. The soft and workable nature of the 
ore, and its close proximity to the surface, makes the mining much 
cheaper than in competing districts. Messrs. Billings, Sheldon & Co. 
are in a position to offer valuable mining property and stock in pro- 
ducing mines on advantageous terms, and they will make quotations to 
any person who may feel interested in the rich iron deposits of the 
'wonderful Gogebic region. 

C. Jurgens & Bro., 14 and 16 Calhoun Place, are practical and 
ski'lful electrotypers and stereotypers, and conduct one of the best 
equipped establishments in their line in the West. The house was 
established in May, 1884, by C. K. Perry & Co., the firm being com- 
posed of C. R. Perry and A. P. Sandberg. Mr. Perry retired, in Octo- 
ber of the same year, when Mr. Sandberg and Mr. C. Jurgens succeeded 
to the business, under the name of Sandberg & Jurgens. On the death 
of Mr. Sandberg, in February, 1885, Mr. Jurgens took charge, and was 
joined by his brother Frederick the following June. The concern has 
an extensive city trade, and does a large business with all parts of 
Illinois and Michigan. The firm have all the latest and most approved 
machinery, including two of the most powerful batteries ever in use. 
Only the most skillful workmen are employed, and only the best 
material used, as the rule is to make the business satisfactory in every 
respect through the superior excellence of their work, their prompt- 
ness in its execution, and their reasonable charges. They keep in stock 
leads, slugs, metal furniture and tint plates, and handle all kinds of 
type, cuts, borders, etc., and also fill all orders for engravers' wood, 
and for wood, photo and wax engraving, in all of Avhich lines they do a 
large and steadily increasing business. 



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Fuller & Warren Company, No. 56 Lake Street, proprietors of the 
Clinton Stove Works, Troy, N. Y., are the recognized leaders in the 
wholesale stove trade not only in Chicago and the west, but of the 
entire country. The Clinton Stove Works were established in Troy in 
1831, over a half- century ago, and since that time they have manu- 
factured a greater variety and a larger annual production of first-class 
goods than any other es- 
tablishment of a kindred 
nature. From a small 
beginning the concern 
has steadily grown to its 
present vast proportions, 
and to-day its goods 
are in demand in all the 
markets of the civilized 
world. The works at 
Troy are of mammoth 
proportions ; they cover 
an area of nearly six 
acres of ground. The 
principal stores of the 
company are at Troy, 
Chicago, Cleveland and 
New York City. The 
Chicago house was open- 
ed in 1862, and the first 
building occupied, with 
all its contents, was 
burned in the great fire 
of 1871. But it was not 
long till the present 
commodious store at 56 
Lake Street was erected. 
The building has five 
stories and a basement. 
The iron front, with its spacious plate-glass windows, is thirty-two 
feet in width, and the store extends through to the next street, a dis- 
tance of 170 feet. It was built expressly for the purpose, and is pro- 
vided with every possible convenience for the rapid handling of the 
extensive business. 




Fuller & Warren Company, No. 56 Lake Street. 



324 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

The managers', book-keepers', and general offices are located on the 
main floor, at the right of the center, the remainder of the floor and the 
entire floors above being used exclusively for the display of samples. 
The basement, third, fourth and rear half of the fifth floors, are used 
for the storage of manufactured goods. The front half of the fifth 
story contains a tin shop, where a large force of workmen are employed 
in the construction of furnace casings, hot-air pipes, etc., used by the 
local furnace department. In addition to the Lake Street establish- 
ment a large warehouse is also required for storing the extensive vari- 
ety which it is necessary to carry to meet the demands of the trade. 
This warehouse is situated on the north pier. It is five stories in 
height, 75X200 feet, and thoroughly equipped for the purpose. The 
stock carried embraces a complete assortment of the various styles of 
stoves, ranges and hot-air furnaces manufactured by the Clinton Stove 
Works, which includes everything in these lines that is demanded by 
the western trade. The transactions of the Chicago house are confined 
exclusively to the wholesale trade. 

C. K. Luce & Co., manufacturers' agents, 152 and 154 Lake Street. 
This firm was established two years ago, Mr. Luce having been con- 
nected with another leading house for thirteen years previous to em- 
barking in this business. They are agents for the Backus fire-place 
steam heater, the Backus patent improved bit brace, the Globe horse- 
nails, etc., and add constantly to their line new and staple articles in 
hardware. They make a specialty of the Backus steam heater, a device 
of great merit which can be used in any room without stovepipe or 
chimney connection and can be moved at pleasure, using either oil or 
gas. The oil burner is peculiarly adapted to heating offices, parlors, 
dining rooms and sleeping apartments, and a great convenience for 
sick-rooms, the temperature of which can be regulated more surely by 
them than any other means. But very little time is consumed in keep- 
ing them in order, and ashes, smoke, smell and dirt are avoided by 
their use. The trade in these heaters is constantly increasing, attest- 
ing their growth in public favor. 

Ira H. Tubbs Mfg. Co., carriages, harness, etc., 356 Wabash Avenue. 
This representative Chicago industry was established in 1871, and was 
this year incorporated with a capital stock of $30,000. Ira H. Tubbs 
is president and treasurer, and W. H. Tubbs, secretary. From thirty 
to forty men are regularly employed at the works, 356 Wabash Avenue, 
where 10,000 sets of harness are turned out yearly. The firm deal, at 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 325 

"wholesale and retail, in carriages, landaus, victories, robes, harness, 
road carts, cutters, blankets, halters, whips, etc., but their specialty is 
the wholesale harness trade. They manufacture harness very largely, 
and exchange with carriage makers in all sections of the country. They 
make a specialty of selling complete outfits of horse furnishing goods, 
carriage and harness at low prices, and are always open to a trade 
for horses and ponies. Their harness manufactory is at 62 North 
Canal Street, and is a scene of busy industry. Mr. George Gale is 
salesman and business manager of the company. He is a practical, ex- 
perienced man, and knows just how to handle their extensive affairs 
successfully, and the good results the business is experiencing are 
due largely to his well-directed efforts. 

Fitz Simons & Connell, contractors for public works, dealers in 
lumber, etc., 1 and 2 Sibley Building, 2 and 4 North Clark Street. The 
business prosecuted by this enterprising and widely-known firm was 
begun in 1868 by Gen. Charles Fitz Simons, A^ho has associated with 
him C. J. Connell. The firm contract for dredging, foundations, 
docking, canals, railroads, piers, etc., and for public works specially, 
and deal in pine and oak timber. The company own five dredges, 
which are constantly in operation on the pier and in the harbor, and 
at various points on the lake. Three of these dredges were built at a 
cost of $25,000 each. The firm put in the foundation of every double 
bridge in Chicago. They have lumber yards and saw mill on the north 
pier, with 800 feet dock front, over 200 feet in depth. This company 
built the Fullerton Avenue conduit, connecting the north branch of the 
Chicago Eiver with the lake, and constructed many other important 
public works. The firm is entirely responsible, and have every facility 
for the successful prosecution of great public works, and undoubted 
ability to fulfill all contracts promptly in a satisfactory manner, and on 
reasonable terms. 

The Mutual Trust Society, No. 95 Washington Street, was organized 
in March, 1867, with $300,000 capital. It is managed by a Board of 
Trustees, with Thos. B. Bryan, president; John D. Jennings, vice-pres- 
ident ; Samuel D. Ward, treasurer ; Franklin Hatheway, cashier. The 
objects of the organization are to execute trusts, manage and settle 
estates, make safe and profitable investments, arrange annuities, make 
collections, etc., in all of which it has many advantages over individual 
trustees, and gives every desirable guarantee. The charter being per- 
petual, the corporation can continue in charge of a trust for any length 



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of time. Mr. Bryan was the founder of the first safe depository in 
Chicago. Mr. Ward is highly esteemed for his able and faithful execu- 
tion of many public and private trusts. 

The E. Howard Watch and Clock Co., manufacturers of fine watches 
and clocks; Chicago office, 170 State Street. This well-known Boston 
house established their Chicago branch in January, 1886. It is under 
the efficient and energetic management of Mr. H. E. Howard. The 
company is the pioneer in the business of manufacturing watches by 
machinery, having preceded all others in this great industry. They 

manufacture exclusively fine watches 
and clocks in all styles, and in their 
clock department making a specialty 
of tower clocks, striking clocks, elec- 
tric dials and electric watchman's 
clocks. The company does a large 
business, the superiority of their 
goods and the solid reputation 
achieved by them having caused their 
trade to extend to all parts of the 
world. A staff of energetic and ex- 
perienced traveling men is employed 
to represent the company on the 
road. The Chicago branch has great- 
ly increased and extended the trade 
of |the company in the West and 
Northwest, and the commodious 
salesrooms in this city, which are 
conveniently and centrally located 
are completely stocked with the fine watches and clocks of the com- 
pany's manufacture, attracting the patronage of the trade, by whom 
these goods are regarded with the just appreciation due to their great 
merit. 

Field, Benedict & Co., importers of woolens and tailors' trimmings, 
Franklin and Quincy Streets. This business was established in 1849 
by Messrs. Field & Benedict. The present members of the firm are 
Messrs. Amzi Benedict, Kichard I. and Peter W. Field and Lewis S. 
Perry. They carry an immense and well-assorted stock of all kinds of 
woolen cloth, including broadcloths, cassimeres, tweeds and other 
suitings, which they import direct from Great Britain, France and Ger- 
many. They buy direct from the manufacturers, with whom they have 




The E. Howard Watch and Clock Co. 
170 State Street. 



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established the most favorable relations, and by reason of their large 
trade and as a result of their judgment in buying, they are enabled to 
offer great inducements, both in quality and price, to the clothing 
manufacturers, jobbers and dealers who are their customers. The 
large and convenient premises occupied by the firm are favorably 
located in the heart of the wholesale business center, and are stocked 
from top to bottom with goods. The firm carries on an extensive bus- 
iness, not only with the dealers of this city, but also with those of Kan- 
sas City, St. Louis, Omaha, St. Paul, Minneapolis and the entire North- 
west. All the partners, except Mr. Peter "W. Field, who has charge of 
the New York branch of this great house, reside in Chicago, and the 
affairs of the house are managed upon progressive and honorable bus- 
iness principles which, together with the superiority of the goods 
handled by the firm, account for the continued growth experienced by 
the business since its inception and the present success of this old 
and thoroughly reliable house. 

C. J. L. Meyer & Sons Co., manufacturers of sash, doors, blinds and 
interior woodwork, 133 and 135 Wabash Avenue. This business was 
established in 1860 by Mr. Charles J. L. Meyer, the present company 
being incorporated in 1883, with a capital stock of $300,000. The 
officers are: C. J. L. Meyer, president; H. P. Meyer, vice-president, 
and J. P. Meyer, secretary and treasurer. The company manufacture 
sash, doors, blinds and every description of interior woodwork and 
fine wooden mantels. Their large factories and warehouses at the 
north pier, foot of Michigan street, consisting of buildings five and six 
stories high, cover about two acres and are completely equipped with 
all machinery and appliances suitable to the requirements of the busi- 
ness. They are conveniently located, with every facility for the ship- 
ment of goods by rail or water. Their salesrooms and warehouse 
premises, at 133 and 135 Wabash avenue, are 50X160 feet, and five 
stories high. The business of the company is very large, giving con- 
stant employment to four hundred skilled workmen, and, in busy sea- 
sons, to a still larger number; and in addition to a large city patronage, 
their trade extends to all parts,of the Union, and is especially large in 
Texas and all the Southern States. Mr. C. J. L. Meyer resides at Fond 
du Lac, Wisconsin, where he has the Fond du Lac Sash and Door 
factory. Mr. J. P. Meyer, the secretary and treasurer, has the general 
management of the business here, and Mr. H. P. Meyer has charge of 
the outside business of the company. The retail branch at Wabash 
Avenue is under the efficient management of Mr. G. W. Harrison, who 



328 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

has been with the company for four years. Five efficient traveling 
men represent the interests of the company on the road. The high 
reputation and great success of the company are the result of the uni- 
form excellence of their work and the correctness of their business 
methods. 

Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co., manufacturers of silverware, 145 and 
147 Wabash Avenue. This business was established fifty-two years 
ago by Samuel Simpson, who is the president of the present company, 
^hich was incorporated in 1867, with a capital stock and surplus of 
$700,000. The other officers are: Gindon W. Hall, general manager; 
A. Andrews, secretary, and Charles D. Yale, treasurer. The factory is 
at Wallingford, Conn., and employs four hundred skilled workmen. 
The main stores of the company are at New York, Philadelphia and 
Chicago, and their business amounts to $1,200,000 annually. Their 
goods are of standard and acknowledged excellence, and their trade 
extends all over the world. Twelve experienced traveling men are 
employed by the company. The Chicago branch, which is under the 
careful and efficient management of Mr. N. M. Burchard, has steadily 
increased the local and Western trade and materially aided in the suc- 
cess of the company. 

Rhoads & Ramsey Co., miners and shippers of coal and coke, and 
manufacturers and dealers in sewer-pipe, fire-brick, fire-clay and 
foundry supplies; general office, 107 LaSalle Street, Chieago. This 
company, of which Theo. Ehoads is president, C. H. Vehmeyer, vice- 
president, W. W. Eamsey, treasurer, and W. B. Mather, secretary, receive 
large quantities of best quality of Indiana block coal from mines at 
Brazil, Indiana, and Pittsburg coal from mines near Pittsburg. They 
also receive large quantities of anthracite, Hocking, Brier Hill and 
Piedmont smithing coal. Their Connellsville coke is acknowledged to 
be the best for rolling-mill and foundry use. They have three yards 
for the benefit of their trade, from which they will deliver any of the 
above ccals in any quantity at desire of the trade. Their extensive 
yards are located at 89 North Elizabeth Street, 35th and Clark Streets, 
and at Englewood. At all these yards they carry a full stock of sewer- 
pipe, fire-brick, fire-clay, etc., and the yards are connected with the 
general office by telephone, enabling the filling of all orders promptly. 
All the yards are connected directly with the railroads, and coal of all 
kinds is received fresh from mines daily. The business of the firm is 
very large, and supplies with coal the leading industrial establishments 
of the city, and also ship largely to points west of Chicago. 



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Studebaker Bros.' New Carriage Factory and Repository, 203, 204, 205 and 206 
Michigan Avenue Boulevard. 



The four upper flours and basement of this building are devoted to 
manufacturing purposes, and the four lower floors are used as a reposi- 
tory, filled with all the leading styles of carriages and buggies, and a 
complete line of novelties. The manufacturing department is under 
the personal direction of Mr. J. F. Studebaker, who has made the 
building of fine carriages a life study, and who possesses the combined 
tastes of the best manufacturers in Europe and America. The Messrs. 
Studebaker also carry a full line of harness, robes, whips and turf 
goods, 



330 MARQUIS' BAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

Sweet, Wallach & Co., photographers' supplies, 229 and 231 State 
Street. This business was established in 1865, by Charles W. Stevens, 
who was succeeded by Douglas, Thompson & Co., he remaining a part- 
ner in that firm until January 1, 1886, when they were succeeded by 
Dexter B. Sweet and John F. Wallacb, under the firm name of Sweet, 
Wallach & Co. This firm are importers, manufacturers and jobbers 
in every description of photographers' supplies, including cameras, 
lenses, backgrounds, frames, mats and all the standard and most recent 
publications on the art of photography and kindred subjects. Their 
premises are commodious and conveniently located in the heart of the 
business center, and their stock is large and diversified, embracing 
everything in their line. They have a large force employed in their 
warehouse, salesroom, manufacturing and shipping departments, to 
fill the numerous orders which they daily receive from all sections of 
the country, and have a number of commercial men on the road, who 
are practical photographers, extending their field of operations, and 
securing for Chicago a large and valuable line of trade which formerly 
went to the East. The business of the house, which had reached large 
proportions under the management of their predecessors, has greatly 
augmented, as a consequence of the energetic and enterprising methods 
of the present firm, the members of which are practical and experi- 
enced and attentive to every detail of the business. Their facilities 
are of the best character, and their promptness in filling orders, the 
superiority of their goods, and the liberal inducements offered to their 
customers have combined to achieve for them an assured and merited 
success. 

B. D. Baldwin & Co., manufacturers of perfumes, 177 Wabash Ave- 
nue. This firm is an old-established one, and the goods produced by 
them are well and favorably known to the trade by reason of their su- 
perior quality. Their manufactory and store are completely fitted to 
suit the requirements of their business, which extends to every part of 
the Union, seven experienced traveling men being employed to repre- 
sent them on the road, and their trade is constantly increasing as a 
result of the merit of their goods and the correctness of their business 
methods. The affairs of the house are supervised by Mr. B. D. Bald- 
win, to whose judicious management may be attributed the success 
achieved by the firm. 

B. O. Van Bokkelen, manufacturers' agent and commission mer- 
chant, 46 and 48 Michigan Avenue. This business was established in 
1878 by Mr. Van Bokkelen, who represents some of the leading houses 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 331 

in the United States, including among others C. Gilbert, manufactures 
of starch; the B,. W.Bell Manufacturing Co., soap and -sal-soda; the 
Dunham Manufacturing Co., St. Louis, cocoanut; the Quaker Mill Co., 
Ravenna, O., oatmeal and rolled oats; Winters & Prophet, Mt. Morris, 
N. Y., canned corn; Littlefield, Allison & Co., San Francisco, California, 
fruits, etc.; Southern California Packing Co., Los Angeles, Cal., canned 
fruits, etc. Mr. Van Bokkelen makes a specialty of California raisins. 
He employs fourteen salesmen, packers and clerks, and does an exten- 
sive trade throughout the West and Northwest. He is a practical and 
experienced business man, and has achieved success as the result of his 
industry and enterprise. 

W. W. Boyington, architect, room 107, No. 157 LaSalle Street. 
Established in Chicago about thirty years ago, and continuously 
engaged in the practice of his profession ever since, Mr. Boyington has 
achieved a reputation as an architect not surpassed by any in this 
country. That great triumph of the architectural art, the new Board of 
Trade building, was built from his designs after competition with all 
the leading architects. This immense structure, built at an expense of 
$1,500,000, is the pride of Chicago. Many others of the mdfct prom- 
inent buildings in this city attest the skill of Mr. Boyington, among 
them the Kock Island and Northwestern depots, the Royal insurance 
building, the Grand Pacific hotel, the Sherman house. In the general 
rebuilding of the city after the great fire of 1871, Mr. Boyington bore 
a prominent part, having in charge three miles of continuous street 
front of buildings. His extensive patronage by the wealthiest and 
most enterprising of our citizens has been achieved by proficiency and 
his careful supervision of every detail of his business. 

Dahinten, Feulner & Scott, art glass-stainers, 16 and 18 Third 
Avenue. This firm is composed of F. X. Dahinten, Sr., John Feulner, and 
John Scott. The business was established some two years since, at 16 
and 18 Third Avenue, and has built up a large trade, extending all 
over the country. The members of the firm are practical men, with a 
long experience in this special line of business. This house does first- 
class w r ork, which has attracted a deal of attention, and in consequence 
of their superior quality of stained wares has built up a large business. 
The house furnishes church work, stained memorial and chancel 
windows, and work for public buildings and private residences. Their 
factory and storerooms at 16 and 18 Third Avenue are commodious and 
convenient, and well calculated for the successful prosecution of their 
business, each room being 30X60 feet, 



332 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

Monrad, Pushman & Co., importers and commission merchants in 
Turkish goods, 215 Wabash Avenue. This, the only establishment in its 
special line in the city, is under the management of G. M. Monrad and H. 
T. Pushman, both of whom have had a large experience in this branch 
of trade, being Turkish Armenians and acquainted with the goods they 
handle, which includes Turkish rugs, Oriental carpets, embroideries 
•and art treasures, They have been established here three years and 
had a similar store in New York for two years before coming here. 
Their trade has grown since its inception and extends to all parts of 
the country, the great merit of their goods securing them the success 
they have achieved. 

L. B. Mantonya & Co., wholesale commission boots and shoes, 227, 
229 and 231 Adams Street, Chicago, 111. This house was established 
in 1865 by Lucius B. Mantonya, and is the oldest and largest exclusive 
commission boot and shoe house in the city. They sell bankrupt 
stocks and job lots of boots and shoes from manufacturers, jobbers and 
retailers, and also have a large line of boots, shoes and slippers from 
manufacturers who must find an outlet for their over-productions. 
They are also sole agents for the production of many makes, such as 
the Rochester Seminary and the Queen Anne shoes for ladies and 
misses, the Pilgrim for men, the Nabob for boys and youths, the Col- 
lege Philadelphia grain for children's and misses' school shoe, the genu- 
ine Sucker boots in Chicago kip, real kip and calf, and the Boston Ideal 
Rubber Co. Country merchants should call upon them when visiting 
Chicago, or send for their beautiful illustrated price list. 

Palmer House Livery, Leroy Payne, proprietor, 169 to 173 Michi- 
gan Avenue. This business was established by Mr. Payne in 1875, 
after an extensive experience in the same line in other cities, at 145 
Michigan Avenue. The rapid increase in his patronage caused him to 
lemove, in 1880, to the commodious buildings which he now occupies, 
and which are not surpassed in extent or equipments by anj T establish- 
ment of its kind in the West. His stable is stocked with fine roadsters 
and carriage horses, and his carriages are of the best makes and 
include coaches, coupes, buggies, victorias, T-carts, road- wagons, etc., 
in great variety. A large force of skillful assistants are employed in 
each department of the business, and the exjellence of the service and 
the superiority of the animals and vehicles provided by this livery have 
earned it an immense patronage among the prominent citizens of and 
visitors to the city. The guests of the Palmer, Leland and other first- 
class hotels patronize this livery extensively. A valuable adjunct tQ 



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this business is the "Horse's Home," at Chebanse, 111., fitted up at a 
great expense as a resort where animals can rest, recuperate or go into 
comfortable winter quarters, with nearly half a mile of stalls, large pad- 
docks, a half-mile track and ample accommodations for 500 horses. A 
large oval-shaped building, one-eighth of a mile in circumference, has 
recently been added at an expense of $20,000, enclosing a track for 
exercising horses in extremely cold or other inclement weather. A 40- 
horse power engine is used for grinding grain and cutting hay for the 
horses, and with careful grooming and constant attention this great 
equine resort justifies the name it bears. The farm rates are low, con- 
sidering the service, and transportation is furnished free both ways for 
horses sent for two months or more. 

American Waltham Watch Company, Bobbins & Appleton, selling 
agents, 104 State Street, Chicago, 111.; also represented at New York, 
Boston, S3 r dney, N. S. W., London, England, and Geneva, Switzerland. 
The nucleus of this corporation was established at Waltham, Mass., 
in 1852, since which time its growth has been pheuomenal. Their 
present daily production exceeds 1,500 movements, and an equal 
quantity of watch cases, employing in all the departments of manufact- 
ure upwards of 3,500 skilled workmen. It may interest the reader to 
know that the average Waltham movement undergoes 3,746 opera- 
tions in the process of making, requiring an average of twelve 
months to complete. No American industry has made such substantial 
progress as the science of watch-making, and its success can be at- 
tributed solely to the untiring vim and enterprise common to our peo- 
ple. It is unnecessary to laud the time-keeping qualities of the Wal- 
tham watch. Over 3,000,000 of them are now being carried in the 
pockets of consumers, who will, no doubt, attest to their merits. 

Chandler-Brown Co., commission merchants, by close application to 
the interests of their customers and honorable dealing for the past 
twenty years and upwards, have earned for themselves a reputation 
second to none in the business. Their specialties are grain, seeds and 
provisions. Their Chicago office is in the Board of Trade, and Mil- 
waukee office, Chamber of Commerce. They are also receivers of live 
stock, with offices at the Stock Yards in both cities. They are strong 
financially, their acquaintance is extensive, and by their correct bus- 
iness methods have earned and maintain a leading position with the 
trade here and elsewhere. The officers of the company are: E. H. 
Chandler, president; G. W. Chandler, treasurer, Milwaukee; and. J, 
Austin Brown, secretary, Chicago, 



334 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

Oscar Cobb, theatrical constructor, architect and superintendent, 
Major block. Mr. Cobb has for years devoted his attention to the 
architectural designing and construction of theatres, etc. He has made 
a special study of the subject, and is believed to be the safest authority 
upon it in the country. He is the inventor and proprietor of most 
that is valuable in the way of new discoveries in regard to the safety, 
comfort and adornment of theatres, such as fire-proof proscenium 
screens, side graduating or drop boxes, undercurrent system of heat 
and ventilation, fire-proof asbestos drop-curtain, upper front proscen- 
ium head-light, stage smoke escape and ventilation, all of which have 
met with remarkable success and a complete recognition of their prac- 
tical utility. Among other theatres built or remodeled in accordance 
with his plans and designs are: Wieting Opera House, Syracuse, N. Y.; 
Grand Opera House, Minneapolis, Minn.; the Columbia Theatre, Chi- 
cago, 111.; Grand Opera House, St. Louis, Mo.; Schultz & Co.'s Opera 
House, Zanesville, O.; Coates' Opera House, Kansas City, Mo.; Academy 
of Music, Chicago, 111.; Keokuk Opera House, Keokuk, la.; Standard 
Theatre, Chicago, 111.; Heuck's New Opera House, Cincinnati, O.; 
Louisville Opera House, Louisville, Ky.; New Grand Opera House, St. 
Louis, Mo. Mr. Cobb's business flourishes because of the peculiar and 
exceptional ability and zeal which he brings to every commission en- 
trusted to his hands. 

George H. Edbrooke, architect, 110 Dearborn Street, has been 
engaged in the active practice of his profession in Chicago for about 
twenty-three years, and has achieved a reputation as a leader among the 
architects of Chicago, and has aided by his skill and taste in the great 
architectural improvement in the city since the fire of 1 871 . He attends 
to all the details of his art and the business connected with it, gives esti- 
mates, furnishes plans and supervises the construction of buildings 
from his designs. Among the buildings erected upon the plans and 
under thedirection of Mr. Edbrooke may be mentioned the Otis Block, 
Old Kepublic Life Insurance building, J. M. "W. Jones building, Adams 
Express, Hiram Sibley's fire-proof warehouses, Chicago College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago Homeopathic College, the South 
Congregational Church, and many other important business and public 
edifices, as well as a large number of the finest residence buildings in 
Chicago. He is also the architect of many public and private build- 
ings at the East and throughout the West, and has now in course of 
erection a ten-story block, for commercial purposes, both in St. Louis 
and Detroit, that will be, for the uses designed, far superior to any 



MARQUIS 9 HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 335 

structure in either city. Mr. Edbrooke is master of his art, and the 
buildings planned by him are much admired for their happy combina- 
tion, of the practical with the artistic, and the careful attention given 
to every minute detail of construction. Among the many elegant private 
residences designed by him, his own dwelling, at No. 3316 Calumet Ave- 
nue, called the "Amoy Cottage," is a beautiful example of the Queen 
Anne style, and is a model of convenience and exquisite taste. His 
success in his profession has been very great and has been fully 
deserved, as being the result of a conscientious performance of every- 
thing he has undertaken and the great skill with which he has executed 
every commission. 

S. J. Stebbins, builders' hardware, 231 State Street. This business 
was established in 1860 by Jones & Keardon, the firm afterward be- 
coming Jones & Stebbins, and now being conducted by Mr. Stebbins 
as successor. The salesrooms and offices are centrally located, and the 
stock embraces a full line of builders' and general hardware, is well 
assorted and the product of the best manufactories. The house does a 
large trade with builders and contractors in this city and all parts of 
the West, and also sells largely to jobbers and dealers. By careful 
supervision of every detail of business, promptness in filling orders, 
and the application of correct methods to all his transactions, Mr. Steb- 
bins has maintained the high reputation established by this house and 
achieved a merited success and the confidence of the trade. 

William C. Stevens & Co., foreign and American works of art, 24 
and 26 Adams Street. Mr. Stevens is the leading representative of art 
in the West. He commenced business in Chicago nine years since, 
and is associated with Mr. Charles F. Haseltine, of Philadelphia, the 
largest importer of works of art in the United States, who, several times 
a year, exhibits and places on sale at the Stevens' gallery fresh Euro- 
pean importations. Last year this house sold one picture alone for 
$55,000 — Meissonier's"Vidette, M — the purchaser being Mr. Albert A. 
Munger. The Stevens galleries are large, well lighted and usually hung 
with many thousands of dollars' worth of paintings by eminent artists. 
Mr. Stevens manufactures artistic frames to order, the framing and 
carving being hand work. In his extensive storerooms are displayed 
proof engravings, etchings, etc. Mr. Stevens' patronage embraces 
wealthy art connoisseurs, and he issues special invitations and gives art 
receptions two or three times a year — whenever he has an exhibition or 
new importation of famous paintings — which are society events of con- 
siderable importance. 



336 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

A. Zinn & Sons, machine and hand-sewed shoes, 24 State Street. 
This firm, established two years ago, are wholesale manufacturers of 
fine shoes for women's, misses', children's and infants' wear exclusively. 
Mr. A. Zinn was formerly a prominent retailer in the same line, and his 
sons and partners, Messrs. Frank, Henry and John Zinn, were trained 
to the business. The premises occupied by the firm are commodious 
and central, and the stock is large and diversified. Their trade has 
grown since its inception and extends all over the West and North- 
west. Mr. A. Zinn gives his personal attention to the manufacturing 
operations, while Mr. Frank Zinn attends to the office business, and 
Messrs. Henry and John Zinn travel in the interest of the firm. The 
great merit of the goods manufactured and the correct business 
methods employed have earned for the house a good reputation and 
substantial success. 

C. C, Holton, parlor furniture, lounges, etc., 224-228 Wabash Ave- 
nue. This is one of the most extensive furniture houses in Chicago. 
It occupies five stories, G0xl60 feet, and employs 100 men, and does 
an annual business of $300,000. Mr. Holton established the business 
in 1869, which he has successfully prosecuted the past seventeen years. 
His trade reaches every section of the country. His business is con- 
fined to the upholstering of parlor furniture. The richness and excel- 
lence of his work is unexcelled. Mr. Holton came to Chicago from 
California eighteen years ago, and has identified himself with its 
interests, is a prominent and honored member of society, and holds 
several important positions of honor and trust. 

D. Webster King & Co., one of the most pushing and energetic 
houses in the country, have recently located here, and it speaks well 
for Chicago that she can draw within her borders such representative 
firms. In addition to their large and commodious store, Nos. 52 and 
54 Wabash Avenue, they have stores in Boston, New York, St. Louis, 
and a resident agent in Cincinnati. Their business is immense, and 
in their stock of glue can .be found the largest variety of domestic and 
foreign carried by any house in this country. In addition to their own 
standard grades, so favorably known throughout the country, they 
carry the entire stock made by several New England glue factories, and 
one must be hard to please who cannot make a selection from their 
large variety. They have for many years sold the New England flint 
paper, and still continue to handle it in all of their stores. An impor- 
tant addition to their business is the sale of Wellington mills London 
emery, for which they are the sole United States agents. 



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Patton & Fisher, architects.. 115 E. Monroe Street. The Scoville 
Institute is the pride of the beautiful suburb of Oak Park, and is prob- 




The Scoville Institute, Oak Park. 

ably the finest library building in the West. It is the gift of Mr. James 
W. Scoville, who has spared neither pains nor money in carrying out 
the designs of the architects, Messrs. Patton & Fisher. The exterior walls 
are constructed of rock-faced ashlar of a handsome, bluish limestone, 
with trimmings of buff Bedford limestone. The interior is thoroughly 
fire -proof. The broad stairway and the wainscoting of the halls are 
of marble, and the various rooms are finished in oak and mahogany. 
On the first floor is a book room, to contain 30,000 volumes, a reading 



338 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

roorn,ref erence library and reception room. The second story contains 
a lecture hall and committee rooms, and an elegantly furnished suite 
of rooms for the use of the trustees. The spacious attic is used as a 
gymnasium. The ventilation has been most carefully planned by the 
architects, and nothing left undone to make the building a model of 
its class and a monument to the generosity of the donor. 

The Pope Manufacturing Co., 115 Wabash Avenue, manufacturers, 
of the Columbia bicyles and tricycles. This company was established 
and incorporated in 1 878, under the joint stock laws of Massachusetts, 
with a capital of $100,000. The principal office is in Boston; Albert 
A. Pope, president, and Edward W. Pope, secretary. Their factory at 
Hartford, Ct., which is the largest of its kind in the world, employs 
400 men and has a capacity of fifty machines per day. This company 
was the pioneer in the bicycle business of America, and to-day there is 
not a State in the Union in which the "Columbia" is not a household 
word. The popularity of the Columbia is proved by the fact that there 
are more of them sold every year than the product of all other manu- 
facturers and importers combined. In connection with their bicycles 
and tricycles, they are Western agents for the Shipman automatic steam 
engine, the greatest invention of the age, and also for R. J. Douglas & 
Co.'s pleasure and hunting boats and steam yachts. R. D. Garden, 
formerly with the Boston office, has full charge of the Chicago branch, 
and under his intelligent management the business is increasing from 
month to month. 

E. H. Sargent & Co., importers and dealers in drugs, chemicals, etc. , 
125 State Street. In 1851 Mr. Sargent became a partner in the house 
of F. Scammon & Co., one of the pioneer drug houses of Chicago, 
which, in a few years, became'Sargent & Ilsley, and in 1860 adopted the 
present style. This is the only drug house in the city that makes a 
specialty of all kinds of chemicals and chemical apparatus, including 
assayers' materials, assayers' furnaces and mining chemicals, and a full 
line of glass, platina and porcelain ware of their own importation, and 
every known drug and chemical is kept in stock. The firm are agents 
for the Battersea Crucible Co., of London; Fletcher's laboratory, ap- 
paratus; Troemner's, Becker's and the best German analytical and 
assay balances; Beck's microscopes and Brown's assay furnace. They 
are also publishers of Brown's Manual of Assaying, and carry surgical 
instruments of every conceivable kind, many of their own manufacture. 
The business is very large, the firm sustaining a high reputation 
throughout the country. Mr. E. H. Sargent, the head of this firm has, 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 339 

at different times been honored with the presidency of the Chicago Col- 
lege of Pharmacy, the American Pharmaceutical Association, and more 
recently of the Illinois College of Pharmacy, a department of the North- 
western University. 

JL. Manasse, optician, wholesale and retail dealer in optical, mathe- 
matical and surveying instruments, 88 Madison Street. Manasse's 
name is as a household word and is familiar to every man, woman and 
child within a radus of one hundred miles of Chicago. Manasse is the 
leading optician of the Northwest, and meteorologists invariably swear 
by his weather reports and his incomparable thermometers. He estab- 
lished the business of optician in this city in 1868, and ever since has 
taken the lead in the manufacture and sale of spectacles and eye- 
glasses, opera and field glasses, telescopes, microscopes, barometers, 
thermometers, medical batteries, artificial human eyes, and in the im- 
portation of drawing materials for engineers, architects, surveyors and 
draughtsmen. Mr. Manasse is a practical optician, and in the depart- 
ment of scientific knowledge of the eye is an acknowledged expert. He 
has made the manufacture of optical instruments a scientific study, 
which he has put to practical application all his life, both in Germany 
and in America. His business occupies three floors of the immense 
building, 88 Madison Street. His trade extends all over the Eastern 
and Western country, orders by mail and express being received daily. 
A large force of men are constantly employed both in his manufactur- 
ing establishment and in the store. Mr. Manasse's meteorological 
reports, which have been regularly kept up for a number of years and 
daily furnished to the public, are standard authority, and rank with 
the records of the government weather bureau. Mr. Manasse stands 
high commercially, and is honored and esteemed socially by all who 
know him. 

Baldwin & Durham, wholesale and retail dealers in furniture, 280 and 
282 Wabash Avenue. This firm, composed of Messrs. L. Baldwin and 
James Durham, was established four years ago. They carry a full stock 
of furniture, embracing parlor and bed-room sets and a general line of 
folding beds, all of the finest and most select quality, which they sell 
at the lowest prices. They maintain pleasant relations with the pur- 
chasing public, and have a large trade, extending through the East, 
West and South. Mr. Baldwin attends to the office and financial trans- 
actions, while Mr. Durham supervises the buying and selling. Their 
correct business methods and fairness of dealing have popularized this 
house with the public. 



340 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

M. W. Kerwin & Co., Kentucky whiskies, 10 and 12 Wabash Ave- 
nue. The members of this representative house are M. W. Kerwin and 
M. W. Murphy. The business was begun in 1871 by Messrs. Keely & 
Kerwin, who were subsequently succeeded by the present proprietors. 
They are wholesale dealers in hand-made sour mash whisky and in 
wines and liquors generally. They have a large city trade, and their 
goods are shipped in enormous quantities to all parts of the Western 
and Northwestern country. They import in large quantities wines, 
brandies, gins, whiskies, etc., and deal extensively in wines of native 
product and the most approved California vintages. The house carries 
a large stock of the best goods, selling nothing which has not an age of 
three years, and having in store hundreds of barrels and thousands of 
bottles of liquors and wines from four to eight years of age. 

Charles A. Allen, gold, silver and nickel plating, 182 State Street. 
Mr. Allen established himself in the business of gold, silver and nickel 
plating, and repairing and repolishing, in Chicago fourteen years since, 
and his works have grown in extent and increased in the magnitude of 
their operations every year since that time. His plating shop is fitted up 
with all the machinery, apparatus and appliances necessary or conven- 
ient for the prosecution of the business, and the quality and finish of 
his work stands high with the trade. Goods which are worn are re- 
plated and refinished and made as good as new. Mr. Allen has always 
paid assiduous attention to his avocation, and his faithfulness to the 
interests of his business, and his systematic and efficient management 
have proven the prime factors of a pronounced success. His business 
reputation is an honorable one, and his close attention to all the details 
of his business has attracted a large and constantly increasing patronage. 

E. B. Millar & Co., importers of teas, coffees and spices, 41 to 43 
Wabash Avenue. This business was established about ten years ago> 
and was formed into an incorporation in 1881, with a capital stock of 
$100,000. The officers of the company are S. 0. Blair, president; H. 
W. Dudley, vice-president; G-. E. Fuller, secretary, and G. H. Clark, 
treasurer. They are direct importers of teas from Japan, and they 
make a specialty of first pickings of the "new crop Uji leaf purchased 
for them spacially and protected under their trade-mark brand of "The 
Mikado Tea." which is an absolutely pure uncolored tea of the choicest 
quality. They also import and roast coffees of all grades, and 
their mill is one of the largest in the city. They are also import- 
ers and grinders of spices, in the selection of which they take special 
care to get nothing but the best and purest, protecting them with their 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 341 

trade-mark of "Penang Spices." Another specialty of the firm is Mil- 
lar's Genuine Cream Tartar Baking Powder, a perfect, practical and 
hygienic article of the highest merit. The firm are manufacturers of 
mustard, flavoring extracts and other articles in their line. Seventy- 
five skilled employes are kept busy in the operations of the firm, and 
their trade is a very large one, extending to all parts of the West, North- 
west and Southwest. Mr. E. B. Millar, who established this business, 
was an old importer of teas. He now resides in California and takes no 
active part in the business. 

E. L. Hedstrom & Co., shippers of coal, 115 Dearborn Street. This 
business was founded in 1857 by Mr. A. B. Meeker, and the present 
firm was founded July 1, 1885, by Messrs. E.L. Hedstrom and G. W. 
Meeker, Mr. A. B. Meeker then retiring from the firm. Mr. J. N. Brown 
was admitted into the firm January 1, 1886. The docks of the firm 
are at Erie andEoberts Streets on the North side, and they have exten- 
sive yards at 2348 Archer Avenue, and at the corner of Twenty-fourth 
and Clark Streets. About one hundred men are employed at these 
establishments, which are provided with every facility for the con- 
veDient and expeditious handling of the coal. The firm deal in bitu- 
minous and anthracite coal, and are the Chicago agents for the products 
of the coal mines of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Kailroad 
Company. Their trade is very large, extending to all parts of the West, 
and they are at all times prepared to supply coal in any quantity in 
the promptest manner and at the lowest market rates. 

Chicago Dredging and Dock Company, contractors for public works, 
210 South Water Street. The officers of this company, which was 
organized in 1877, are: C. S. Crane, president; Daniel Booth, vice- 
president; Frank K. Crane, secretary; William H.Woodbury, treasurer; 
and Fred Davis, superintendent. The company contracts for public 
work of every description, including canals, railroads, bridges, harbors, 
foundations, breakwaters, etc., dock and pier building and dredging. 
It is fully equipped with the plant necessary to the requirements of its 
business, and owns seven superior dredges, five pile-drivers, twenty 
hopper and deck barges, and four tugs, one of which is the largest in 
this harbor. The company give emploj^ment to three hundred men, 
and possess all the necessary facilities for the execution of any contract 
in their line of business. A large number of valuable contracts have 
been filled by the company in a manner which has gained for it a repu- 
tation for good work and reliability in all its operations, and achieved 
for it a successful career. 



342 MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

Western Moxie Nerve Food Co., Moxie Nerve Food, 33 North State 
Street. This company was incorporated in 1886, at Portland, Maine, 
and at Chicago, with a capital stock of $2,000,000, and officered as 
follows: George P. Walker, president and manager; J. F. Chute, Port- 
land, Me., secretary; L. T. Trail, Lowell, Mass., treasurer. The capa- 
city of the laboratory in Chicago is 500 cases of nerve food per day. 
From May to October $40,000 worth of this nerve food was sold in Chi- 
cago alone. The manufactory in Chicago is splendidly equipped, and 
employs a large force of assistants. The original company, established 
in 1885, at Lowell, Mass., by Dr. A. Thompson, sold upward of 5,000,- 
000 bottles of Moxie the first fifteen months, and wholesalers predict 
that its sale next year will reach fifteen million bottles. The united 
companies have factories at Montreal, Canada, Lowell, Mass., Koches- 
ter, Baltimore, Norfolk, Va., Chicago, Atlanta, Ga., Galveston, Tex., 
Denver, Col., Little Eock, Ark., San Francisco, and local agencies in 
most principal cities. Their goods are handled by wholesale drug- 
gists, and are sold everywhere in all parts of the world. 

W. S. Thurber, importer and dealer in fine arts, 210 Wabash Ave- 
nue. This house, established in 1860, does a large business in Chi- 
cago, the West and Northwest. Mr. Thurber's specialty is fine artistic 
framing, and he deals only in first-class goods, including pictures, en- 
gravings, water-colors and etchings by the best American and Euro- 
pean artists. His salesroom and art gallery, covering 25 X 130 feet, form 
a popular resort for art patrons, artists and connoisseurs, both profes- 
sional and amateur, and are arranged with surroundings which appeal to 
the artistic eye. Mr. Thurber, who came to this city from Ogdensburg, 
N. Y., has earned popular recognition and success, stands high com- 
mercially, and has gained an enviable reputation and esteem in bus- 
iness and social circles. 

H. W. French, manufacturer of carriage lamps, 84 and 86 Market 
Street. This house was established twenty-two years since by Mr. A. 
H. Heyner, upon whose decease, two years ago, Mr. H. W. French, the 
present proprietor, succeeded to the ownership. He is a practical man, 
and with an adequate working and factory force, is extensively engaged 
in the manufacture of every style of carriage, hearse, hook-and-ladder 
truck, hose cart, fire engine, signal, bicycle and side lamps, etc., in fine 
or cheap grades. Mr. French sells principally to the carriage trade and 
to jobbing houses, but has a good private patronage. He is enterpris- 
ing and progressive, and his trade is yearly attaining to vaster and more 
marked commercial importance. 



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Blauer Watch Case Co., gold and silver watch cases, 149 and 151 
State Street. This company was established in 1867 by Fred Blauer, 
since deceased, and was incorporated in 1883. The following are the 
officers: Mr. William Dickinson, president; Mr. William C. Taft, vice- 
president and general manager; Mr. Kobert W. Patton, secretary and 
treasurer. Its capital ^tock is $80,000. The company, at its factory, 
123 and 125 LaSalle Avenue^ manufactures a large line of gold and 
silver watch cases, making a specialty of the invisible joint watch case. 
It controls several valuable patents, which are utilized in the manufact- 
ure of their watch cases, thus rendering their goods superior to those 
manufactured by other firms. This firm sell only to jobbers, and have 
several traveling men representing their interests the country over. 
Mr. Taft has charge of the manufactory, and Mr. Patton attends to the 
office and financial affairs. The president, Mr. Dickinson, is a member 
of the Board of Trade and a director of the National Bank of America. 
The strict integrity which marks the company's successful career has 
secured it the confidence of the trade and the public. 

N. A. Williams, dealer in Akron sewer pipe, fire-brick, etc., 219 
Washington Street. This business was established by Mr. Williams in 
1869. The premises occupied by him consist of a commodious three- 
story building, well stocked with every species of articles in his line, 
including chimney tops, fire flue-linings, plaster, fire-sand, drain tiles, 
fire brick, etc. In his extensive yards he carries a large stock of fire 
brick, cement, fire-clay, etc. Mr. Williams is the sole agent for the cele- 
brated Akron vitrified sewer-pipe, and does a very extensive trade in 
these goods, which he carries in all varieties and large stock, including 
socket-pipe, ring-pipe, curves, elbows, Y's, T's, etc. All the goods 
handled by him are of the best manufacture and finish, and his trade 
is very large, aggregating fully $300,000 per year and extending to 
every part of the West and Northwest. He employs fifteen hands with 
teams, and is prepared to fill the most extensive orders on short notice. 
With an experience of twenty-seven years in the business, and keeping 
a close supervision of all its details, he has achieved a leading position 
among the dealers in his line. 

Andrew Bolter & Sons, Illinois Iron-works, 172 and 174 East Van 
Buren Street. This business was established by its present proprietor 
in 1856. The works are carried on in a commodious building 50 X 125 
feet, and employ from thirty to fifty skilled mechanics. The line of 
goods manufactured consists principally of iron building work, such as 
iron doors, shutters, railings and ornamental designs in iron. In this 



344 MARQUIS HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 

latter specialty Mr. Bolter has no superior. He is himself an expert 
draughtsman and supplies the designs. The works are fitted up with 
all the machinery and appliances adapted to the requirements of the 
business, and all the operations of the works are under the personal 
supervision of himself and his two sons, Joseph C. and Edward Bolter. 
The long and honorable career of Mr. Bolter has always been prosper- 
ous, except when he, in common with so many thousands of others, 
was burned out in the great fire of 1871. But since he rebuilt after the 
fire his business has been more extensive than ever, the improved 
character of the buildings since erected causing an enhanced demand 
for the goods of Mr. Bolter's manufacture. 

G. A. Crosby & Co., manufacturers of presses and dies, and spe- 
cial machinery for sheet-metal workers, 259 to 263 Kandolph Street. 
This business was established in 1866 by Mr. G. A. Crosby. The 
factory is commodious and completely equipped with all the machinery 
and necessary appliances for the business, and gives employment to a 
large force of competent mechanics. They manufacture presses and 
dies suitable for every description of work, and special machinery of 
all kinds for the use of sheet-metal workers. All the machines pro- 
duced by this factory are of the latest and most approved design, em- 
bacing every principle calculated to enhance their usefulness, and made 
in the most complete and substantial manner. The firm does a very 
large business among the leading metal workers of the United States 
and Canada, and supply machinery to meat-canning establishments, 
not only in this country, but also in New Zealand, Australia and South 
America. They are prepared to fill orders on short notice and in the 
most satisfactory manner, and have built up their high reputation and 
great success by the superior merit of their work. 

Hughes & Johnson, general lithographers and steam press printers, 
253 and 255 East Kinzie Street. This firm, composed of Thomas 
Hughes and Peter C. Johnson, was established in 1879, removing to 
their present building in 1884. They occupy ten floors, each 50X 100 
feet, equipped with all modern machinery, and employ from fifty to 
sixty skilled workmen. They have a large and growing patronage in 
Chicago, the West and Northwest, arid receive large orders from New 
Zealand, Canada, and other foreign countries. Their specialty is de- 
signing and printing fine colored show cards, and their stock of goods 
and material is very large. They conduct their business with enter- 
prise and judgment, and enjoy the confidence and patronage of the 
trade. 



MARQUIS' HAND-BOOK OF CHICAGO. 345 

J. Leland Fogg, dealer in garden seeds, 31 Michigan Avenue. In 
1843 James P. Fogg, father of the present proprietor, started the bus- 
iness of this house at Rochester, N. Y. He established the Chicago 
house in 1863, as the Western Seed Co., which afterward became J. P. 
Fogg, Son & Bro. In 1886 the present proprietor purchased the 
entire business, which has attained mammoth proportions, employing 
forty persons in its packing and shipping department. The seeds are 
purchased in all parts of America and Europe, and are raised by con- 
tracts, conditioned that they must germinate at a very high percent- 
age, otherwise they are not received. The goods are placed with mer- 
chants throughout the country for sale on commission. If any remain 
at the end of the season they are returned, and at the opening of the 
ensuing season a fresh stock is supplied. This is the only establish- 
ment in Chicago dealing exclusively in garden seeds. 

Charles L. Tate, manufacturer of artificial limbs, was born in 
Orange County, N. Y., in 1846, and left there with his parents, Henry 
W. and Mary Tate, at the age of twelve years, moving to the present 
town-side of Hinsdale, 111., where they rented a farm. He was edu- 
cated in the country schools, completing his studies at the academy 
built at Hinsdale several years after taking up his residence there. He 
went to Philadelphia, Penn., in 1865, but returned to the West and 
located at West Lyons, on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, 
and was appointed agent of the company. He also opened a store, and 
was appointed postmaster, afterward giving this up to take a position 
on a passenger train on the railroad. He came to Chicago, and was 
foreman of the Howe Sewing Machine Shop after the fire, and subse- 
quently was employed by the Singer Manufacturing Company, and the 
Wilson Sewing Machine Company, also the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing 
Machine Company, soon becoming expert in the sewing machine busi- 
ness. His mechanical genius attracted the attention of the manufac- 
turer of artificial limbs for Sharp & Smith, and he was induced to enter 
the employ of that firm, remaining with them most of the time from 
1875 to 1883, when he concluded to open business for himself, and 
occupied for one year, a portion of a store with S. S. Bliss, on Ran- 
dolph Street. He is at present located in the Bryant Block, No. 89 
Randolph Street. His superior mechanical abilities have rendered 
him good service, enabling him to already build up a satisfactory busi- 
ness and his customers are well pleased with the limbs furnished. He 
speaks of one customer who has for some time worn an artificial 
leg of his manufacture, who entered a contest for a prize given to the 



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best waltzer and who captured the prize. Mr. Tate manufactures appli- 
ances pertaining to physical deformities, and has had remarkable 
success in fulfilling his promises of satisfactory results. His persistent 
efforts to attain superiority, and his pride in his prof ession will undoubt- 
edly accomplish a noteworthy success. 

The Chicago Window Shade Works, Kaumeier & Anderson, proprie- 
tors, Nos. 75 and 77 Market Street, are convenient and capacious, 
being thoroughly equipped for the purposes to which they are devoted; 
they employ a large force of skilled workmen in the manufacture of 
every style of window shades and carry a full line and complete stock 
of shade cloth, fixtures, and trimmings. Mr. Kaumeier is an experi- 
enced designer and has every facility for making fancy dadoes and 

borders and decorating window 
shades, his experience and skill en- 
abling him to compete with any of 
the Eastern houses. The firm have 
an extensive local trade, and daily 
receive orders for their goods from 
all parts of the country. Their place 
is also headquarters for the Tripp ad- 
justable shade bar, which is a new 
and convenient trimming for the 
bottom end of window shades. The 
accompanying cut shows the bar at- 
tached to the shade. For a neat and 
durable trimming this bar is highly 
recommended, and all orders for the 
same receive the promptest attention 
of Messrs. Kaumeier & Anderson, and 
all work done by them is guaranteed to be entirely satisfactory. The 
large and prosperous business which the firm control is the fullest 
possible proof of the popular esteem in which their house is held in 
commercial circles. They are gentlemen of high social abilities, as 
well as the best business qualifications, and are deserving of the pros- 
perity which has always crowned their efforts. 

The Chicago Forge and Bolt Co. was organized and incorporated 
in 1880, and at once became an important factor in Chicago's indus- 
trial enterprise. Its operations have steadily increased from the 
start, and its trade now extends to every part of theWest, Northwest, and 
South. The works of the company, located at Fortieth Street and 




Chicago Window Shade Works, 75 and 
77 Market Street. 



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Stewart Avenue, and corner Michigan and Franklin Streets, respec- 
tively, are among the largest and best equipped manufacturing estab- 
lishments in the city. They are wanting in no requisite necessary to 
the rapid and economical prosecution of the industry to which they are 
devoted, and they contain much valuable and powerful machinery to 
be found in no similar works. The iron testing machine in use here 
is the largest and most powerful in this country, excepting only those 
owned by the national government. The range of manufacture 
embraces car axles, iron and steel shafting, shape work, dock rods, 
forgings, blacksmith work, rods and bolts of all kinds, iron bridges, 
viaducts, iron roofs, engine turn-tables, iron and wooden cranes, der- 
ricks, etc., and, in fact, everything pertaining to forging, iron bridge 
building and miscellaneous railroad supplies. A large force of skilled 
workmen are employed, the best materials only are admitted into the 
manufacture, and the output of the works is recognized by the trade as 
of the very highest quality to be obtained. The general office of the 
company is at No. 234 S. Clark Street, and the officers are: A. E. Adams, 
Pres., Fred M. Steele, Sec, Francis King, Treas., and C. Weatherson, 
Supt. 

The G. M. Jarvis Co., wine growers and dealers, office and sales- 
rooms, 39 North State Street. This business was begun in 1860 by Mr. 
G. M. Jarvis, and was incorporated into a stock company in 1 885, with 
a capital stock of $50,000, and officered as follows: G. M. Jarvis, 
president, and J. F. Jarvis, secretary. The vineyards are m Santa 
Cruz Countj r , California, where they were planted by Mr. Jarvis in 
1860, and during a quarter of a century the wines and brandies manu- 
factured from them have become famous, and the name of "The G. M. 
Jarvis Co." is known all over the country. They were awarded the first 
prise for the best wines and brandies at the World's Fair, New Orleans; 
at the Illinois State Fair, held at Springfield, in 1872, and several other 
first prizes on other occasions, thus attesting the superiority of the 
goods over all others. The Messrs. Jarvis also hold unqualified testi- 
monials as to the absolute purity of their wines and brandies from the 
most eminent analytical and assaying chemists and physicians in the 
United States. The capacity of the vintages and distilleries is 150,000 
gallons of wine and 25,000 gallons of brandy yearly, and the trade of the 
house extends to nearly all parts of the United States, and is rapidly 
increasing in volume. A very large demand comes from the wholesale 
drug trade (the goods being recommended by physicians), and the 
wines and brandies are in wide demand for family use. The G. M. Jar- 



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vis Co. are also agents for Arpad, Karaszth & Co.'s Famous Eclipse 
Champagne. 

Geo. Daniels' composing and printing rooms were originally estab- 
lished at No. 69 Dearborn Street, in 1878; but his growing business 
soon demanded more room and increased facilities, and in 1881 the 
present commodions quarters at Nos. 79 and 81 Eandolph Street were 
occupied. The office affords excellent conveniences for conducting 
the printing business. It is equipped with typographic appliances, 
which, for extent and variety, are surpassed by few of the most exten- 
sive printing establishments. Mr. Daniels has always given special 
attention to the composition of books, pamphlets, catalogues and peri- 
odical literature, and many works requiring special accuracy in typo- 
graphical preparation and the most perfect proof-reading, have been . 
"set up" in his establishment. The composition for "Marquis' Hand- 
Book of Chicago" was done in this office; as has also been that of many 
other important historical works, and theological, scientific and literary 
publications. Among the periodicals regularly issued from this office 
are the following: "The Universalist," "American Artisan," "Stationer 
and Printer," "Picture and Art Trade," "Mining Keview," "Song 
Friend," "Record and Appeal," "Watchmaker and Metalworker." The 
house is also prepared to execute all kinds of commercial job printing. 

O. A. Thorp & Co., exporters and importers, 218 LaSalle Street, 
Insurance Exchange Building, constitute a leading and representative 
house in their line of business. The business was founded in 1880, 
and has grown steadily in volume and magnitude, the transactions 
embracing the purchase and sale of provisions, grain, seeds, etc., on 
commission, and the exporting of grain and provisions, etc., to Europe, 
and in turn importing European goods to this country, a special 
feature of the latter being the importation of herring and other cured 
fish. A member of the Board of Trade, and formerly a resident of 
Christiana, the principal seaport of Norway, where his established bus- 
iness relations are of the most advantageous character, Mr. Thorp 
possesses ' every facility for successfully and satisfactorily conducting 
his rapidly growing trade. 



INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. 



FULL PAGES. 

PAGE. 

Central Baptist Church 177 

Chicago River 59 

County Court House and City Hall 63 

Farwell, J. V. & Co 295 

First Presbyterian Church 193 

Graceland Cemetery, Entrance to 164 

Graceland Cemetery, Scenes in 167 

Keith, Edson & Co 301 

McCoy's European Hotel 273 

Northwestern University 211 

Old Block House and Lighthouse 21 

Pal v« er House 269 

Passenger Depot, Polk Street and Fourth Avenue 51 

Pullman Building 31 

Rosehill Cemetery, Scenes in 161 

Studebaker Bros 329 

Union Depot, Canal Street 45 

Union Park, Scene in 91 

U. S. Life Saving Station 123 

Washington Park, Scenes in 87 

Washington Park, Scenes in 89 

Wolf Point 11 

SMALLER ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Allerton Monument 1 67 

Alexian Bros.' Hospital 109 

Art Institute Building 230 

Bates Monument 167 

Board of Trade Building 262 

Calumet Club House 1 35 

Carpenter, Geo. B. & Co.'s Build- 
ings 304, 305, 306 

Cathedral of the Holy Name 198 

Central Music Hall 241 

Chicago, Siteof 6 

Chicago Athenaeum 215 

Chicago Avenue Church 188 

Chicago Club House (interior view) 133 

Chicago Herald Building 255 

Chicago Home for the Friendless.. 104 

Chicagoin 1845 17 

Chicago Nursery and Half- Orphan 

Asylum 118 

Church of the Messiah 202 

Clement, Bane & Co 311 

Coffin, Devoe& Co 319 

Collector's Office— U. S. Customs... 67 

Columbia Theatre 237 

Dailv News Building 252 

Douglas Monument 93 

Drexel Fountain 96 

Dunfee, J. & Co 315 



Elgin National Watch Co 299 

Evening Journal Building 246 

First Baptist Church 174 

First House Erected in the Burnt 

District 22 

First House in Chicago 5 

First National Bank 285 

First Regiment Armory 78 

Fort Dearborn, Site of 15 

Foundlings' Home 101 

Fox Lake Shooting and Fishing Club 

House 153 

Fuller, Warren & Co 323 

Graceland Cemetery, Scenes in 167 

Grand Opera House 239 

Home for the Friendless 104 

Hooley's Theatre 238 

Hospital of the Alexian Brothers.. 109 
Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear In- 

firmarv 107 

Kean, S. A. & Co 287 

LaSalle Street Tunnel 36 

Leland Hotel 271 

Lincoln Park, Scene in 84 

McClurg, A. C. A Co 291 

McGrath, John J 290 

Mercv Hospital 113 

"Moody's Church" 188 



350 



INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS, 



North Side Water Works Tower 71 

Old Saloon Building 18 

Open Board of Trade 264 

Police Patrol 74 

Postoffice 66 

Presbyterian Hospital 216 

Rosehill Cemetery, Views in 161 

Rush Medical College 216 

St. John's Episcopal Church 179 

St. Joseph's Hospital Ill 

Scoville Institute 337 

Second Court House in Chicago 64 

Sinai Temple 201 

Studebaker Bros 329 

Taylor Mausoleum 167 



The '"Cottage" 95 

Tribune Building 249 

Union Club House 137 

Union Park Congregational Church 185 

U. S. Government Building 66 

U. S. Marine Hospital 119 

U. S . Sub Treasury Office 67 

University of Chicago 209 

Washingtonian Home 115 

Washington Park Club House. 146 

Water Works Tower 71 

Western Avenue M. E. Church 191 

Young Men's Christian Association 
Building 205 



INDEX TO TEXT. 



Abram Cox Stove Co 309 

Academy of Music 236 

Albion Cricket Club 156 

Aldine Square 94 

Alexian Bros.' Hospital 109 

Allen, Charles A., Gold and Silver 

Plating 340 

Allouez, Rev. Claude 173 

American Association of the Red 

Cross 122 

American Electrical Association 234 

American Humane Association 121 

American Institute of Hebrew 220 

American Sunday School Union 206 

American Waltham Watch Co 333 

Amusement, Places of 235-244 

Anthracite Coal Association 266 

Apollo Hall 242 

Apollo Musical Club 257 

Arbeiter-Zeitung (Newspaper) 255 

Armory Bicycle Club 156 

Armour, George (Library) 225 

Armstrong George Buchanan 68 

Art Institute, The 229 

Art Institute Library 226 

Art Schools 229-232 

Abts and Sciences 229-234 

Asay, E. G. (Library) 224 

Astronomical Society 233 

Audubon Club 152 

Aurora Turn Verein 144 

Bachelor, Rev. Geo 203 

Badin, Rev. Stephen 173 

Baird & Bradley . 277 

Baldwin, Byron A., & Co., Real Es- 
tate 280 

Baldwin, B. D., & Co., Perfumers.. 330 

Baldwin & Durham. Furniture 339 

Baltimore, Ohio & Chicago Railroad 55 

Bands of Mercy 124 

Bangs, Geo. S. (Monument) 160 

Bank Clearings 288 

Bankers' Club 138 

Banks 283 

Banks and Bankers 283 

Baptist Theological Seminary 219 

Barbour Bros. Co., Linen Thread... 314 



Barnard & Calkins, Real Estate 278 

Barnes & Parrish 282 

Barrows, Rev. John H 194 

Barry, S. S. & Co 302 

Bartlett, J. A., Real Estate 281 

Bates, Eli (Grave) 1 68 

Bear and Wolf Hunting 18 

Beaubien, Alexander 173 

Beaubien, Mark 15, 16, 17 

Beethoven Society 257 

Belt Railway 55 

Bennett College of Eclectic Medicine 

and Surgery 217 

Bennett Free Dispensary 127 

Bennett Hospital 121 

Benevolent Institutions 99-130 

Benevolent and Mutual Aid Societies 130 

Bethel 124 

Beth Hemidrash Hagadol Congrega- 
tion Cemetery 172 

Black Hawk 15 

B'nai Abraham Congregation Ceme- 
tery 1 72 

B'nai Sholom Cemetery 171 

Bicycle Clubs 156 

Billings, Sheldon & Co., Iron Mines, 

etc 322 

Bineteau, Rev 173 

Biake, Shaw & Co., Dake Bakery... 321 

Blakely Printing Co 303 

Blauer Watch Case Co 343 

Board of Marine Underwriters 266 

Board of Trade 261 

Boat Clubs 148-151 

Bohemian Art Club 231 

Bohemian Gvmnastic Association. . . 143 

Bogue & Hoyt 282a 

Bolter, Andrew & Sons, Iron Works 343 

Boone, Levi D. (Mayor) 21 

Boss Horse Shoers' Protective Assn. 266 

Boulevards 81,94-98 

Boyington, W. W., Architect 331 

Brown, Pettibonc & Co., Printers & 

Stationers " 298 

Bridges 35 

Builders' and Traders' Exchange. . . 265 
Building Department. 70 



INDEX TO TEXT. 



351 



Bueial Places, The 159-172 

Burr Mission 105 

Burr's Grave 108 

Business Houses 289 

Campbell Printing Press Co 296 

Calhoun, John 17, 245 

Calumet Club 1 34 

Calvary Cemeterv 162 

Campbell Park 92, 93 

Camp Douglas 77 

Canadian Club 145 

Carnes & Coombs, Abstracts 282 

Carpenter, Geo. B., & Co 304-306 

Casino Theatre 244 

Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul 180 

Cathedral of the Holy Name 198 

Catlin Boat Club 150 

Cemeteries 159-172 

Centenary M, E. Church 189 

Central Baptist Church 176 

Centennial Baptist Church 178 

Central Boulevard 97 

Central Church (Prof. Swing's) 186 

Central Church of Christ 178 

Central Driving Park 244 

Central Free Dispensary 126 

Central Homeopathic Free Dispen- 
sary. 127 

Central Music Hall 241 

Chandler-Brown Co., Commission.. 333 

Channing Club 141 

Chaeity and Benevolence. 99-130 

Charity Organization Society 125 

Chebra Gemiluth Chasadim Ceme- 
tery 171 

Chebra Kadisha Ubikur Cholim.... 129 
Chebra Kaaisha UbikucCholimCeme- 

tery 171 

Checaugou River 7 

Cheney, Rev. Chas. Edward. 182 

Chicago Academy of Homeopathic 

Physicians and Surgeons 157 

Chicago Academy of Sciences 232 

Chicago & Alton Railroad 47 

Chicago & Atlantic Railroad 56 

Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. Co. 48 

Chicago & Evanston Railroad 56 

Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway 50 

Chicago & Northwestern Railway 

Company 40, 41 

Chicago & West Michigan Railway. . 52 
Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad 53 

Chicago & Western Railroad 55 

Chicago (An Historical Sketch of) . . 5 

Chicago Art League 231 

Chicago Association of ex-Union 

Prisoners of War 148 

Chicago Athenaeum . 214 

Chicago Athenaeum Library 224 

Chicago a Town (Incorporated) 14 

Chicago Avenue Church (Moody's).. 188 

Chicago Bar Association 142 

Chicago Base Ball Club 156 

Chicago Bethel 124 

Chicago Bible Society 204 

Chicago Bicycle Club 156 

Chicago Board of Trade. 261 

Chicago Board of Trade Battery 

Association 147 

Chicago Boot, Shoe & Leather Asso- 
ciation 266 



Chicago Board of Underwriters 266 

Chicago Bowline Club 155 

Chicago Brick Makers' Association. . 266 
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail- 
road 44 

Chicago Canoe Club 151 

Chicago Cigar Manufacturers' and 

Dealers' Association 266 

Chicago City Railway Company 37 

Chicago Clearing House 266 

Chicago Club 133 

Chicago College of Pharmacy 218 

Chicago College of Physicians and 

Surgeons 219 

Chicago Cricket Club 155 

Chicago Curling Club 155 

Chicago Daily News 251 

Chicago Democrat 17 

Chicago Demokrat 255 

Chicago Dental Infirmary 218 

Chicago Dental Society 157 

Chicago Drapers' and Tailors' Ex- 
change 266 

Chicago Dredging & Dock Co 341 

Chicago Driving Park 244 

Chicago Drug, Paint and Oil Ex- 
change 264 

Chicago Eclectic Medical and Surgical 

Society 157 

Chicago Electrical Society 234 

Chicago Evening Mail 256 

Chicago Exchange for Women'sWork 127 

Chicago Eye and Ear Infirmary 20 

Chicago Female College 220 

Chicago Forge & Bolt Co 346 

Chicago Furniture Storage Co 320 

Chicago Gynaecological Society 158 

Chicago Herald, The 254 

Chicago Home for the Friendless . . .-. 103 
Chicago Hospital for Women and Chil- 
dren 102 

Chicago Historical Society 222 

Chicago Incorporated a City 19 

Chicago Jewelers' Association 266 

Chicago Lady Quartette 258 

Chicago Law Institute Library 223 

Chicago Liberal League 139 

Chicago Light Infantry (colored) 79 

Chicago Literary Club 131 

Chicago Livervmen's Association 266 

Chicago Mail '. 256 

Chicago Manual Training School 213 

Chicago Master Masons' and Builders' 

Association 266 

Chicago Master Plumbers' Associa- 
tion 266 

Chicago Mechanics' Institute 219 

Chicago Medical College 217 

Chicago Medical Press Association.. 157 

Chicago Medical Society 158 

Chicago Medico-Historical Society. . 157 
Chicago Mercantile Battery Veteran 

Association 147 

Chicago Merchants' Club 136 

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail- 
way 48 

Chicago Mining Exchange 263 

Chicago Museum and Theatre 240 

Chicago Musical College 220 

Chicago Nursery and Half- Orphan 
Asylum 117 



352 



INDEX TO TEXT, 



Chicago Musical Club 259 

Chicago Numismatic and Archaeo- 
logical Society 234 

Chicago Passenger Ry. Co 38 

Chicago Open Board of Trade 264 

Chicago Opera House 240 

Chicago Orphan Asylum 108 

Chicago Passenger Railway Co 38 

Chicago Photographic Association.. 148 

Chicago Polo Club 156 

Chicago Pottery Club 232 

Chicago Quartette 258 

Chicago Racquet Club 156 

Chicago Rawhide Manufacturing Co 320 

Chicago Real Estate Board 265 

Chicago Relief and Aid Society 99 

Chicago Retail Coal Dealers' Associ- 
ation 266 

Chicago River 58-7 

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail- 
way 46-40 

Chicago Sabbath Association 206 

Chicago Sharpshooters' Association 152 

Chicago Shooting Club 154 

Chicago Society of Decorative Art.. 231 
Chicago, St, Louis & Pittsburg Rail- 
Road 48 

Chicago Stained Glass Works 318 

Chicago Stock Exchange 265 

Chicago Theological Seminar v 219 

Chicago Tribune, The 248 

Chicago Turngemeinde 143 

Chicago Union Veteran Club 1 46 

Chicago Vessel Owners' Association. 266 
Chicago Veterans of the Mexican 

War 147 

Chicago West Division Railway Com- 
pany 38 

Chicago W indow Shade Works 346 

Chicago Women's Club 132 

Chicago Yacht Club 148 

Chicago Young Men's Christian Assot 

ciation 205 

Cholera Visits the City 25 

Christ Church (Reformed Episcopal) 1 82 

Churches 171-206 

Churches of Chicago— Number of 

each denomination 204 

Church of the Epiphany 182 

Church of the Holy Name 198 

Church of the Messiah (Unitarian) . . 202 
Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis 

& Chicago Railway 54 

Citizens' Association 141 

City Hall 61-62-64 

City Hall (the first) 19 

City Goveknment, The 69-76 

City Officials 69-76 

City's Water System 71-73 

Clan-Na-Gael Guards 79 

Clearing House, Chicago 266 

Clearing House Statistics 288 

Clement, Bane & Co., Clothing 311 

Clinical Society of Hahnemann Hos- 
pital 158 

Clubs and Societies, The 131-158 

Cobb, Oscar, Architect 334 

Coffin, Devoe& Co 319 

Colleges 207-220 

Collegiate Department of theChicago 
Dental Infirmary 219 



Collier, Rev, Laird 202 

C Oliver, Rev, Robert 202-203 

Commercial Club 136 

Commercial Exchange 264 

Commissioner of Pensions 67 

Concordia Cemetery 170 

Confederate Dead 170 

Congress Park 92-93 

Cook County Hospital 114 

Cook County Infirmary 121 

Cook County Insane Asylum 120 

Cook County Organized 14 

Cook County Normal and Training 

School 210 

Cook County Sunday School Associa- 
tion 206 

Cook County Teachers' Association.. 143 

Couch Tomb, The 82 

Countv Court House (new) 61 

Court House (old) 1 9-62-64 

Countv Jail 65 

Cox, Abram, Stove Co 309 

Cricket Clubs 155 

Criminal Court and County Jail 

Buildings 65 

Criterion Theater 243 

Crosbv, G. A.. & Co., Dies, etc 344 

Cumberland Gun Club 151 

Cunningham, The James, Son & Co., 

Carriages 293 

Current, The 256 

Custom House (U. S,) 66-67 

Custom Cutters' Association 266 

Dahinter, Feulner & Scott, Glass 

Stainers 331 

Daily National Hotel Reporter 256 

Damen, Rev. Arnold 199 

Dania Society 157 

Daniels George 348 

Danish Veteran Society 130 

Davis & Morse Co 302 

Deaconess Institute and Hospital.. 126 

DeakVerein 128 

Dearborn Observatory 233 

Dearborn Observatory Library 226 

Dearborn Park 93 

Delaware Boat Club 151 

Department of Public Works 70 

Department of Finance 70 

DeSaible Baptiste Point 8 

Diana Hunting Club 154 

Dibblee, The Henry Co., Mantles, etc 314 

Dickinson, Albert, Seeds 306 

Diebold Safe & Lock Co 307 

Division of the Missouri, U. S. A 78 

Dole, Geo. W 16 

Douglas Boulevard 97 

Douglas Monument 93 

Douglas Park 86 

Douglas, Stephen A 93-94 

Drexel Boulevard 96 

Drexel Fountain 96 

Drovers' Journal.. 256 

Dunfee, J., & Co., Wood Carpet 315 

Edbrooke, Geo, H., Architect 334 

Educational Department 62-76-207 

Educational Institutions 207-220 

Eighth Presbyterian Church 196 

Eighty-second Illinois Veteran So- 
ciety 144 

Eintracht Liederkranz 260 



INDEX TO TEXT. 



353 



Elgin National Watch Co 299 

Elv, Edward & Co 308 

Ende, Mrs. Amelia 213 

English Lake Shooting and Fishing 

Club 155 

EllisPark 94 

Erie Express 312 

Erring Woman's Refuge 118 

Evanston Boat Club 150 

Evening Journal 246 

Evening Mail 256 

Evening News 251 

Evening Telegram 255 

Exchanges. The 261-266 

Exposition Building 26,242 

Fallows, Rev. Samuel 183 

Farwell Hall 212 

Farwell, John V., & Co., Wholesale 

Dry Goods 294, 295 

Farraeut Boat Club 149 

Feehan, The Most Rev. Patrick A. . . . 198 

Fidalia, The (Singing Societv) 260 

Field, Benedict & Co., Wholesale 

Woolens 326 

Fifth Presbyterian Church 1 96 

Financial Institutions 283 

Fire Department 75, 76 

Fireof 1874 25 

First Baptist Church 173 

First Congregational Church 183 

First German Baptist Church 203 

First M.E. Church 189 

First National Bank 285 

First Newspaper 17 

First Presbyterian Church 192 

First Public Building 14 

First Slaughtering and Packing 16 

First Vessel to Arrive (Schooner Tra- 
cy) 57 

First White Child Born in Chicago . . 10 
FitzSimons & Cornell, Contractors 325 

Floating Hospital Association 112 

Flood of 1849 20 

Flour and Grain 27 

Fogg, J. Leland, Seeds 345 

Forest Home Cemetery 171 

Fortnightly of Chicago 131 

Fort Dearborn 8, 9, 14, 16 

Foundlings' Home 101 

Fourth Baptist Church 176 

Fourth Presbvterian Church .... 195 

Fowler E. S. & W. S., Optical 

Goods 316 

Fox Lake Shooting and Fishing Club 153 
Free Dispensary of the Illinois Chari- 
table Eye and Ear Infirmary 107 

Free Sons of Israel Cemetery 172 

French H. W., Carriage Lamps 242 

Fritz Renter Club 148 

Fuller, Warren & Co 323 

Gage-Downs Corset Co 297 

Gage Park 92 

Galena & Chicago Union Railway. 20, 40 

Garfield Boulevard 96 

Garibaldi Legion 1 41 

Gamett, Wm. & Co., Real Estate.. 282a 

Garrett Biblical Institute 219 

George H. Thomas Rifle Club 155 

German American Young Ladies' In- 
stitute 213 

German Ladies' Society 181 



German Evangelical Lutheran Cem- 
etery 171 

Germania Msennerchor 259 

German Singing Societies 259 

German Society 118 

Giles Brother & Co., Jewelers 310 

Goodman, Jas. B., & Co 277 

Goodwin, Rev. E. P 184 

Grace Episcopal Church 181 

Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church 183 

Grace M. E. Church 190 

Graceland Cemetery 164 

Grades of the Streets Raised 24 

Grand Boulevard 95 

Grand Opera House 239 

Grand Pacific Hotel 268 

Great Fire, The 22 

Greenebaum Sons, Mortgage Bank- 
ers 281 

Groveland Park 93 

Haddock, Vallette & Rickcords 282 

Hahnemann Medical College 217 

Hahnemann Hospital 1 20 

Hahnemann Hospital Dispensary. . . 1 27 

Haines Bros., Pia,nos 313 

Halsted Street Opera House 243 

Hammond Library 219 

Harmonia Quartette. 258 

Harris, N. W. & Co., Bankers 286 

Hatfield, Rev. R. M 189 

Heald, Capt 10 

Health Department 76, 62 

Heather Club 136 

Hebrew Benevolent Societv Cemetery 1 71 

Hedstrom, E. L. & Co., Coal 341 

Helm, Lieut 10 

Henrotin Charles 284 

Herald, The Chicago 254 

Hereford Kindergartin 203 

Hermes Bicycle Club 156 

Hershey School of Musical Art 220 

Hibernian Rifles 79 

Historical Sketch of Chicago 5 

Holt, Sergt 10 

Holton, C. C. . Furniture 336 

Home for Incurables 108 

Home for the Aged of the Little Sis- 
ters of the Poor Ill 

Home for the Friendless 1 03 

Hooley's Theatre 238 

Hospital of the Alexian Brothers... 109 

Hotels, The 267-274 

House of Providence 1 25 

House of the Good Shepherd 105 

Howard, The E. Watch & Clock Co. 326 
Hughes & Johnson, Lithographers. . 344 

Hull, Gen 10 

Humboldt Boulevard 97 

Humboldt Park 85 

Hvman, S., & Co, Jewelers 293 

Illinois and Michigan Canal 60, 39, 40, 

14. 19 

Illinois Art Association 232 

Illinois Association of the Sons of 

Vermont 1 40 

Illinois Central Railroad 44, 39 

Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear In- 
firmary 107 

Illinois Club 138 

Illinois Humane Societv 124 

Illinois Industrial School for Girls.. 214 



354 



INDEX TO TEXT. 



Illinois Iron Works 343 

Illinois National Guard 78 

Illinois St. Andrews' Society 142 

Illinois Social Science Association.. 234 

Illinois Staats-Zeitung 253 

Illinois Training School for Nurses. 214 

Inimanuel Baptist Church 175 

Indian Massacre 13 

Interior Deparment (U. S.) 67 

Internal Revenue Collector 67 

Inter Ocean, The 250 

Inter-State Exposition Co 242 

Ira H. Tubbs Mfg. Co., Carriages and 

Harness 324 

Irish- American Club 147 

Irish- American Council 148 

Irish Catholic Colonization Associa- 
tion 130 

Iroquois Club 139 

Irwin, D. W. (Library) 229 

Jackson Park 90 

James Cunningham, Son & Co., Car- 
riages 293 

Jarvis, The G. M. Co., Wines 347 

Jefferson Park 92 

Jefferson Park Presbyterian Church. 196 

"Jesuit Church" 198,199 

Jewish Cemeteries 171 

Jewish Churches 200,201 

Johnson, Rev. Herrick 195 

Joliet, Louis 5 

Jones, J. M. W. Co 292 

Jurgens, C, & Bro., Electrotypers.. 322 

"Kankakee Route" 54 

Kaumeier & Anderson 346 

Kean, S. A. & Co 286 

Kehilath Anshe Maarab 200 

Kehilath Anshey Maarab Cemetery. 171 

Keith, Edson & Co 301 

Kerfoot, S. H. & Co 276 

Kerwin, M. W., & Co., Whiskies.... 340 

Kindergartens 220 

King, D. Webster & Co., Glue 336 

Kinzie House 9 

Kinzie, James 15 

Kinzie, John 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 

Kinzie, Robert A 15 

Kinzie's Grave 165 

Kohl & Middleton's Museums 243 

Labor Riots of 1877 25 

Lackey Zouaves 80 

Lake George Sportsmen's Associa- 
tion 155 

Lake Michigan 56 

Lake Park 93 

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 

Railway 43, 40 

Lake Shore Drive 98 

Lakeside Club 139 

Lakeside Summer Sanitarium 112 

Lake View Rifle Club 154 

L angle v Avenue M. E. Church 190 

Law Department (City) 62,70 

Law Department (U.S.) 67 

Legislative Power 69 

Leiter, L. Z. (Library) 225 

Leland Hotel 271 

LeMai 8 

LlBRAKIES, The 221-226 

Lincoln Abraham 15 

Lincoln Park Congregational Church 186 



Lincoln Park 82 

Literary Clubs 131 

Little, Rev. Arthur 184 

Live Stock 27, 265 

Locke, Rev. Clinton 181 

Lorimer, Rev. George C 176 

Louisville, New Albany & Chicago 

Railway 49 

Loyola Debating Society 212 

Lyceum Theatre 243 

Luce, C. K. & Co., Manufacturing 

Agents 324 

Lumber 27 

Lumber Manufacturers' Association 

of the Northwest 266 

Lumberman's Exchange 263 

Lumlev, Wm., Desks, etc 309 

Lyon, J. F., Real Estate 281 

McCagg, E. B. (Library) 225 

McClaren, Bishop 181 

McClurg, A. C. &Co 291 

McCoy, Rev. Isaac 173 

McCoy's European Hotel 272 

McGarry & Leonard 317 

McGrath, John J 289 

McNeil Malcom & Bros., Real Es- 
tate 278 

McVicker's Theatre 235 

Madison Street Theatre -. 243 

Mak-Saw-Ba Club 152 

Manasse, L., Optician 339 

Meyer, C. J. L. & Sons Co., Sash, 

Doors, etc 327 

Military 77 

Militia, The 77-80 

Miller, E. B. & Co., Teas, Coffees 

and Spices 340 

Mantonay, L. B. & C 332 

Manufacturers 27-28 

Margaret Fuller Society 140 

Market Building 62 

Marquette, Jacques 5, 8, 173 

Marquis, A. N. & Co 1 

Martha Washington Home 116 

"Mary Collier Chapel," 202 

Mascoutin Indians 7 

Maurice Porter Memorial Hospital. . . 110 

Mayors of Chicago, List of 69 

Medical Colleges 216-219 

Medical Science Club 158 

Medical Societies 157-158 

Mediil, Joseph 250 

Memorial Baptist Church 204 

Mercy Hospital 113 

Miami Indians 7 

Michael Reese Hospital 106 

Michigan Avenue Boulevard 94 

Michigan Central Railroad 42, 40 

Michigan Southern & Indiana North- 
ern Railway 40 

Michigan Southern Railway 20 

Midway Plaisance 92 

Military Order of the Loyal Legion 144 

Millard Avenue Cricket Club 156 

Miller, John 15 

Milu, Geo. C 203 

Monrad, Pushman & Co., Turkish 

Goods 332 

"Moody's Church" 188 

Moral Educational Society 140 

Morgan Park Military Academy 220 



INDEX TO TEXT. 



355 



Morris, John W 307 

Mortality of the City 25 

Mount Greenwood Cemetery 170 

Mozart Club 257 

Mulligan's Grave 162 

Murphv <fe Company, Varnishes 316 

Museums 240,243 

Musical Festival Association 258 

Musical Societies. The 257-260 

Music Schools 220 

Mutual Trust Society... 325 

National Association of Lumber 

Dealers 266 

National Bank of Illinois 283 

National Theatre 243 

Neue Freie Presse, The 254 

New England Congregational 

Church 184 

Newsboys' and Bootblacks' Associa- 
tion 103 

Newspaper Press, The. . . 245-256, 17 

Newspapers, The Number of 256 

News, The Chicago Daily 251 

New York, Chicago & St. Louis By . . 54 
Nineteenth Illinois Infantry, Volun- 
teer Veteran Club 144 

Noble, Mark 9 

Noble, Bev. F. A 185 

North Chicago City Bailway Co 38 

North Chicago Sharpshooters' Asso- 
ciation 154 

North Side 7 

North Side Hebrew Congregational 

Cemetery 172 

Northwestern University 210 

Oak Wood Boulevard 95 

Oakwoods Cemetery 169 

OgdenBoat Club 151 

Ogden, Win. B. (First Mayor of Chi- 
cago) 19 

Ohabey Emunah Congregation 

Cemetery 172 

Old People's Home 100 

Olympic Theatre 243 

Open Board of Trade 264 

Oriental Quartette 258 

Orphan Asylum of the Guardian 

Angel 106 

Orpheus Maennerchor 259 

Orr& Locket 317 

Palmer House 267 

Palmer House Livery 332 

Panic of 1837-38 38-19-20 

Panic of 1873 24 

Parks and Boulevards 81-98 

Park Avenue M. E. Church 191 

Park Commissioners 82 

Patton & Fisher. Architects 337 

Parochial Schools 220 

Pavne, Lerov, Livery 332 

Peabodv, Francis B., & Co 277 

People's Church (Dr. Thomas) 187 

People's Theatre 243 

Philosophical Society 233 

Pinet, Bev 173 

Pittsburgh, Fort Wavne & Chicago 

Bailway 47, 40 

Places of Amusement, 235-244 

Plattsdeutschen Verein 141 

Pleasure Clubs 131 

Plymouth Congregational Church... 185 



Police and Firemen's Belief Fund 127 

Police Department 73-75 

Political Conventions 26 

Political Clubs 131 

Polo Clubs 156 

Pope Manufacturing Co 338 

Pope, N. Q.(Libraiy) 225 

Population of the City 26 

Pork Packers' Association 266 

Postoffice 66-67 

Pottawotamie Indians 7 

Presbyterian Hospital 120 

Press Club 132 

Presbyterian Theological Seminary 

of the Northwest 219 

Princess Polo Club 157 

Prisoners' Aid Association 122 

Private Art Collections 232 

Private Book Collections 224 

Private Libraries 224 

Private Schools 220 

Produce Exchange 263 

Provident Woodyard 125 

Public Buildings, The 61-68 

Public Halls 241-243 

Public Library 221 

Public Schools 207 

Pullman Athletic Association 150 

Pullman Cricket Club 156 

Quartettes, The 258 

Quartiers, Bishop 162 

Bansom's Grave, Gen. E. G 160 

Bailroads 39 

Bailroads, total mileage of, centering 

in Chicago 40 

Bailwav Exchange 266 

Beal Estate 19, 21, 25, 26, 27 

Beal Estate Board 265 

Beal Estate Dealers, Agents and 

Loan Brokers 275 

Beal Estate Interests 275 

Bed Cross Association 122 

Belief Works 121 

Beligious Institutions. The 

173-206 

Bhodes & Bamsay Co., Coal, etc 328 

Bice, Jno. A. (Library), 225 

Biding Academy : 156 

Binger, P. & Co.. Bookbinders 318 

Bobbins & Appleton 333 

Bobinson, (Alexander 15 

Bohan, Ensign, George 10 

Roman Catholic Churches 197-199 

Bosehill Cemeterv 160 

Bovers Cricket Club 156 

Bunnion, James B. (Librarv) 226 

Bush Medical College 216 

St. Boniface Cemeterv 171 

St. Cecelia Quartette 258 

St. Cecelia Society 258 

St. Cyr, Bev. John Mary 197 

St. George's Benevolent Association 128 

St. George's Cricket Club 155 

St. Ignatius' College 212 

St. James' Church (R. C) 199 

St. James' Episcopal Church 178 

St. John's Church (B. C.) 199 

St. Joseph's Home for the Friend- 
less 1 02 

St. Joseph's Hospital Ill 

St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum 116 



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INDEX TO TEXT. 



St. Luke's Free Hospital Ill 

St. Mary's Church 197 

St. Mary's Training School for Boys 214 
St. Paul's Church (Reformed Episco- 
pal) 183 

St. Paul's Church (Universalist) 201 

St. Xavier's Academy 213 

Saint Cecelia Society 212 

Saint Vincent's Asylum 116 

Saloon Building 18, 19, 62 

Sanitary Condition of the City 25 

Saracen Club 139 

Sargent, E. H. & Co 338 

Sargent, Greenleaf & Brooks 308 

Saturday Evening Herald 254 

Skandinaven (Newspaper) 255 

Scandinavian Emigrant Relief So- 
ciety 129 

Schimpferman, Wm. H. & Son 300 

School Fund 208 

School of Lyric and Dramatic Art. . 220 

Schools 207-226 

Schraeder Brothers, Real Estate 280 

Schubert Quartette 258 

Schumann Quartette 258 

Schwaben Verein 129 

Schweitzer Benevolent Association. 128 

Schweitzer & Beer, Toys 298 

Schweizer Msennerchor 259 

Scudder, Rev. H. M 186 

Second Baptist Church 175 

Second Presbyterian Church 194 

Secret Societies (Omitted) 130 

See, Samuel 15 

See, William 15 

Servite Sisters Industrial Home for 

Girls 102 

Sewerage System, The 37 

Sherman House 274 

Shooting Clubs 152-155 

Silva, Charles P., Real Estate 279 

Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co., Silver- 
ware 328 

Sinai Congregation 201 

Sixth Presbyterian Church 196 

Skinner, Mark (Library) 225 

Smith, Perry H. (Library) 225 

Social Clubs 131 

Societa Operaia Italiana 128 

Societies (Social, Literary, Political 

Sporting, Pleasure, Etc.) 131-158 

Society for Ethical Culture 139 

Society for Home Teaching of the 

Blind 130 

Society of the New Jerusalem 1 99 

Sodality Building 199 

Sons of Maine 142 

South End Shooting Club 154 

South Parks 88 

South Side 7 

South Side Free Dispensary 126 

Southwest Chicago Sharpshooters' 

Association 155 

Sportsmen's Club of Chicago 154 

Sporting Clubs 131 

Standard Club 136 

Standard Theatre 236 

State Microscopical Society 234 

State Protective Association (Liquor 

Dealers) 266 

Stebbins, S. J., Hardware 335 



Stevens, Wm. C. & Co., Art Works. 335 

Street Railways 37 

Streets and Avenues 29 

Streets, grades of 24 

Streets, length of 30 

Studebaker Bros., Carriages 329 

Suess, Max & Co., Stained Glass... 318 

Sun, The (Newspaper) 256 

Surdam, S. J. & Co., Hardware 303 

Svea Society 129, 226 

Svornost, The 256 

Swedenborgian Churches 199 

Swedish Theological Seminary 219 

Sweet, Gen. B. J 162 

Sweet, Wallach & Co., Photograph- 
er's Supplies 330 

Swerrington, Lieut. Jas. S 8 

Swing, Prof. David 186 

Tabernacle Congregational Church. 186 

Tansill, R. W., Cigars 309 

Tate, Charles L., Artificial Limbs. . . 345 

Tax Valuation of Real Estate 26,27 

Teutonia Masnnerchor 260 

Theaters 235 

Theological Schools 219 

Third Presbyterian Chureh 195 

Thirteen Club 145 

Thirty-fifth Street Boulevard 94 

Thomas, Rev. Dr. H. W 187 

Thoroughfares. The 29-38 

Thorp, O. A &Co 248 

Throope, O. A. & Co 348 

Thurber, W. S., Art Dealer 242 

Times, The Chicago 247 

Tippy Canoe Club 151 

Tolleston Club 151 

Tompkins & Mandeville, Harness 

and Saddlery 303 

Trade Associations 266 

Training School for Nurses 214 

Transportation Facilities 39-60 

Tremont House 270 

Tribune, The Chicago 248 

Trine, Dr. J. G, See Back of Cover.. 

Trinity Episcopal Church 180 

Trinity M. E. Church 192 

Tubbs, Ira H, Mnfg. Co., Carriages 

rand Harness 324 

Tunnels 36 

Turner Maennerchor 260 

Turn Verein Voerwarts 143 

Twenty-fourth Illinois Veteran So- 
ciety 147 

Underwriters' Exchange 266 

Ulich Evangelical Orphan Asylum. . 110 

Union Catholic Library 223 

Union Club 136 

Union College of Law 212 

Union League Club 138 

Union League of America 145 

Union Park 92 

Union Park Congregational Church 184 

Union Riding Club 156 

Union Square 93 

Union Steam Boiler Works 317 

Union Stock Yards... 265 

Unity Church 203 

Unity Church Industrial School.... 220 

Unity Club 140 

University of Chicago 208 

United Hebrew Relief Association.. 126 



INDEX TO TEXT. 



357 



United States Courts 67 

United States Custom House 66-67 

United States Government Building 66 
United States Life Saving Station.. 122 

United States Marine Hospital 119 

United States Postoffice 66 

United States Sub-Treasurv Office.. 67 

U. S. Desk and Office Fitting Co 309 

Utter, Rev. David .' 202 

Van Bockkelen, B. O., Commission, 

etc 330 

Van Voorhis, Surgeon 10-13 

Vermillion Gun Club 155 

Vernon Park „ 92 

Veteran Union League 144 

Virginia Society 141 

Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific R'y 52 

Waldheim Cemeterv 171 

Walker, H. H, Real Estate 282a 

Wanderers Cricket Club 155 

Washington Boulevard 98 

Washington Driving Park 244 

Washingtonian Home 115 

Washington Park 88 

Washington Park Club 146 

Washington Square 93 

Watchmakers' and Jewelers' Asso- 
ciation 266 

Water Works..... 71-73 

Weber, Bernard F„ Real Estate 278 

Weber Lady Quartette 258 

Weber Music Hall 243 

Wells, Capt. William 12, 13 

Wentworth, Elijah 15 

Western Avenue Boulevard 97 

Western Avenue M. E. Church 191 

Westeru Moxie Nerve Food Co 342 



Western Railroad Association 266 

Western Seamen's Friend Society.. 124 
Western Society for the Suppression 

of Vice 129 

Western Society of Engineers 234 

West Side 7 

West Side Club 134 

West Side Free Dispensary 127 

Whistler, Capt. John 8 

Whitehead, Henry 173 

Wicker Park 92, 93 

Willing, Henry (Library) 225 

Williams, N. A., Sewer Pipe, etc 343 

Windsor Theatre 243 

Wisconsin Central Line 60 

Wolf Point 11, 15 

Woman's Christian Association 125 

Woman's Hospital of Chicago 110 

Woman's Medical College.' 218 

Woman's Physiological Institute... 158 

'"Women's Exchange" 127 

Women's Homeopathic Medical 

Society 158 

Woodlawn Park 93 

Wunder Cemetery 171 

Young, John N., Real Estate 279 

Young Men's Christian Association 205 
Young Men's Christian Association 

(Holland) 204 

Young Men's Christian Association 

(Scandinavian) 205 

Young Men's Christian Association 

Library 224 

Young Men's Hebrew Charity So- 
ciety 129 

Zinn, A. & Sons, Shoes 336 

Zion Congregation 200 



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